Short Questions Thread

noal wrote:Or you can have attacks with "%physical damage convert to magic/light/fire/cold damage" and they will also benefit from that

In the case of a rat, my quill storm wouldn't be affected, but my exploding eggs would be?

Quillstorm does weapon damage, so it'll work with that as well.
It doesn't have to be only physical or physical conversion, it just has to be weapon-based.

I won't have access to the game until a week and the documentation hasn't updated yet, so just out of curiosity:

What's the new holy pala uberskill and what does it do exactly?

In that case seems like egg trap will be affected by that feature too.

@Bongobob
It's drake morph with duration of 300 sec. In total: drake morph was reworked, replaced by new skill and moved to holy uber skill place; plague nerfed and moved to holy melee tree as lvl 12 skill.

Thanks, that's what I figured, too.

Pretty good decision if you ask me. Plague always bothered me as an uberskill and drake morph is a nice contrast with uberbeast.

I'm trying to use the "catalyst of disenchantment" for "arcane shard"

I put the "unique item" + "catalyst", but this is not working.

Am I doing something wrong?

Only reason it wouldn't work is if the "unique" came from gift box.

rolled a bow druid with cascade, t6 gear and i am abusing the salamanders breath bow proc. holy crap, this spec facerolls almost everything 2 screens away on p8 destruction and the ubers i was in, yet due to t6 its very very glasscannon.

my questions:

1. does "-x % to enemies fire damage" influence the proc damage (lvl 36 firesplash) from that bow? i have -80% to fire resist and around +50 to fire damage on gear and i am not sure if that translates at all. its really hard to see because when i fire, it seems to "chain-proc" and i cant really see if theres a difference at all.
2. this build (and most other builds i have) have a really hard time hitting bosses, even with 95% chance to hit. do bosses have some "avoid" and its working as intended? also, the effectiveness of crushing blow seems to be reduced. (in vanilla lod, it was reducing the actual hp to half, iirc). some minibosses (a5) go down with 3-4 hits thanks to crushing blow while others take ages. whats the mechanics behind that?

thanks in advance, and happy easter!

ab_ wrote:rolled a bow druid with cascade, t6 gear and i am abusing the salamanders breath bow proc. holy crap, this spec facerolls almost everything 2 screens away on p8 destruction and the ubers i was in, yet due to t6 its very very glasscannon.

my questions:

1. does "-x % to enemies fire damage" influence the proc damage (lvl 36 firesplash) from that bow? i have -80% to fire resist and around +50 to fire damage on gear and i am not sure if that translates at all. its really hard to see because when i fire, it seems to "chain-proc" and i cant really see if theres a difference at all.
2. this build (and most other builds i have) have a really hard time hitting bosses, even with 95% chance to hit. do bosses have some "avoid" and its working as intended? also, the effectiveness of crushing blow seems to be reduced. (in vanilla lod, it was reducing the actual hp to half, iirc). some minibosses (a5) go down with 3-4 hits thanks to crushing blow while others take ages. whats the mechanics behind that?

thanks in advance, and happy easter!

1. Yes, both spell damage and -enemy res affect proc spells' damage.
2. Bosses usually have high hp, high res , sometimes avoid. It's better to use an attack that can multihit a single target, which bowdruid and many other builds kinda lack. You might try nova shot at close range for dealing with boss. Crushing blow iirc reduce enemy hp by 12% for range missle.

thanks a lot for clearing that up, i will try other skills and see how that works. and yes, bow du kinda lacks when it comes to single targets. (i love the lag in duncraig, endless sea etc tho, which indicates i eradicated another group of enemies). i think i will make him a proc beast and i am putting together a proper gear setup. maybe, if i can amass enough def, this toon will be able to tackle the harder challenges in this game?