You might see some passives, gear stats or gems that give a higher amount of dmg to one type as well, which is a global modifier too. So if your gear or passive has +% Material dmg that is a global modifier that affects all physical, rend and toxic dmg of that type since there is no specific affix indicating it's for spell or attack. I'll try to break it down in a chart-like fashion below for anyone getting lost here. They all apply a different ailment but only 4 of them do actual dmg with one amplifying dmg. I'm not the best math person so I don't know what is best route to go +(specific) dmg to spells (for more different ailments) or go all +8-10% (specific) ailment dmg on weapons.Īlso, for anyone else wondering, out of the 9 different dmg types in games they are divided into 3 categories. I'm in the middle of respeccing again now trying to figure out best/how many ailments to take and what gems to put in sockets.

I thought perhaps spell dmg at first affecting ailments as there are sometimes nodes close by it etc. This is more true for a new game on release as well when people are figuring it all out. The game's mechanics and stat sheet can be confusing at first and people tend to make mistakes sometimes when explaining things. Or +toxin/+poison dmg in Plaugebearer tree.

There is only one tree dedicated to caster ailments and all the other ones have all kinds of +spell dmg or +specific dmg. I get what you're saying about double dipping but melee has +melee dmg and +weapon dmg too so something doesn't seem right. When going through the skill tree you have to take some nodes along the path that gives you flat +15 spell dmg overall so these wont buff ailments either? Just the direct dmg portion of any spell you cast I guess, which will be weak anyways after taking +ailment/-direct dmg?

It's all +spell dmg or +specific element dmg or adds 9-12 dmg of one type to spells. So when you look at a gem, they have affixes such as 'adds 9-12 toxic damage to spells' - So this will not buff ailment dmg at all then? Or just the spell portion you cast, if it's even worth it when you start taking +ailment/-direct dmg skills?īecause other than that on gems I just see +ailment chance but not even an option for ailment dmg, which makes gems seem almost worthless.Īlso, I have rarely seen any items/weapons that have +burn or +ailment dmg on them. OK so wait then, I am getting more confused now but not really. So if you deal fire, shadow and rend damage, but can only apply two ailments in a single hit with a single skill, then it will take the two highest dmgs of the tree types you deal in order to decide which ailment is applied. The amount of base dmg only matters when discussing the priority of ailments applied. You can obtain items that give you more, so if you have shadow dmg to spells as well you can then also inflict all 3 ailments with a single fireball (each has a seperate chance to be applied) Meaning your fireball can proc burning dmg and if you have lightning dmg to spells as an example, can also proc shock. With the passive Grievous Afflictions you can apply two. This means at base you can only apply a single ailment with a single skill. You can inflict as many ailments with a single skill as you have +1 ailment stacks applied (see Grievous Afflictions). Things like -direct dmg but +ailment dmg would be redundant and things like 12% spell dmg 12% ailment dmg would be op and double dip. Of course not, that would be double dipping etc.

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