Short Questions Thread

[Stealthmaster]

2) Mana Sweep and Arcane Torrent is affected by total mana pool you have, not by % spell damage. Not sure about BFG skill though.

[iwansquall]

1) Pretty sure %attack is for %attack rating ; chance to hit enemy

2) Believed those are not affected by spell damage (usually skill that have "received bonus from : energy" does boosted by spell damage)

*ninja, ninja everywhere

[suchbalance]

1) I've got 2 skill which one does +%damage and another +%attack, so what is the difference between them, also to "damage : xxx" and "attack : xxx"?
2) Fixed damage (like orb of annihilation) and skill based on amount of mana/hp (e.g mana sweep, arcance torrent) is affected by +%spell damage or not?

thanks

1) If you are talking about moonstrike the "damage: X% to attack" means bonus phys damage of this ability only. The "damage: + Y%" (that is increased with hard points) affects your total physical weapon damage.

2) Fixed damage means what you would expect - it cannot be increased by anything. The only way to modify dps in this case is to a) cast faster & b) reduce target resistance to spell damage type.

Mana spells are affected by mana & their level, not by any type of "spell damage" stat.

[inSenZe]

E.g The summoning skill Hoplite says that by level 1 it will summon alliances with 200 attack and arround 205 damage, also to skill Hammerstrike that say attack 50% and damage 150% at level 1, so what is the difference? things @iwan said seem to be quite right but I'm not sure so much.

Anyways, thanks all you guys for very fast replys, I've really appriciated those.

[suchbalance]

I don't get why both of you are confused...

Some of the things say "Attack: X", the other says "Damage: X to Attack".

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Clearly the former has to do with attack rating (in the case of hoplites their base AR, in the case of hammerstrike the %bonus to your base AR); the latter means "add damage bonus to this attack only".

[SeaWeed]

Can i make a bosskiller out of wolfdruid with twisted claw or bladestorm from set or should i just respec to traprat? Trying to do Kab and Yshari

[Ducky]

Just a quick question, what's an sk1?

[Nitz]

Just a quick question, what's an sk1?

Unknown Skull 1 - Dropped by every enemy in the unformed land.

[Ever_A_Noob]

Is lion stance still viable? It's now a flat +50% damage from both elemental / physical / magic is that correct? Hard points don't reduce it anymore.

I'm having a hard time imagining where I can come up with 100% DR, hefty flat damage reduction plus at least 85% res all to survive even the Detonators in A5. Am I thinking about this build incorrectly? Was planning to use Yaggai or some other giant weapon.

[Gekko64]

it's +25% for physical only