Fire Penetration
"No. It fundamentally cannot work with RF or any other damage over time, because penetration is by it's very nature something that happens on-hit at the point in time the total damage is applied, which damage over time does not have. | |
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does this support affect Searing Bond DPS?
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"no, searing does not "hit". | |
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If using, say, Fireball linked with FP while wearing Infernal Mantle, does the damage conversion occur before or after resistances are applied?
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Conversion happens attacker-side, Resistances are defender-side. FPen does not apply to Chaos Damage.
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" That doesn't answer my question, though. Will the fire damage dealt be converted to chaos before or after resists? Get laid, get paid, drink Gatorade.
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It does. You deal Fire and Chaos Damage - FPen does not apply to Chaos Damage Dealt.
When you cast a Fireball, do you think its modifiers are checked when you cast it, or when it hits a monster and is already checking for modifiers on the monster? Think about Supports for a sec.
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There's two steps to dealing Damage. First, the attacker determines its full Damage potential. This is done in the following order:
-Damage Based On -Conversion -Increased+Reduced Damage, More Damage, Less Damage -Roll for Crit It's then hurled towards whatever chump pulled the short end of the straw. They apply their modifiers: -Damage variance -Evasion (presumably Crit Confirm too) -Dodge -Block -flat Damage reduction (probably non-existent on monsters) -Armour/Resistances (waaay over here is where FPen does anything) -Increased+Reduced Damage Taken, More Damage Taken, Less Damage Taken Last edited by Vipermagi on Mar 2, 2014, 7:18:39 PM
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I'm a little confused on the mechanics of lowering monster resists with fire pen. Lets go with a scenario here.
Monster has 125 fire resist. I use lvl 20 fire pen for -35% enemy resist on a fire trap. The monster is also cursed with elemental weakness lvl 20 and flammability for another -98% resists. An earlier post mentioned that fire penetration ignored overcapped resists. Does that mean that the creature I hit would effectively have -58 fire resist or -8 fire resist. If the latter, then if I'm using a single curse and have fire penetration (lets call the curse -50 fire res for the sake of the question) then there would be no point in using that curse on a creature with 125% fire resist? | |
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fire pen, if alone, starts at the resistance cap of 75%.
fire pen, if added with curses, add up together for the total penalty the foes now have. example, your -35% on a fire resistant foe but nothing else, means the foe has only 40% resistance when fire trap explodes (and only for that explosion). however, if using the curses too, then its -35 + -98 = -133 to foe's resistance, or a -33% total resistance of foe. | |
" Correct. The Curse would 'lower' the monsters Resistance from 125% to 75%, which does nothing for you. Pen applies after the cap is checked, so it applies to the 75% value with or without the Curse. |
