Short Questions Thread

[suchbalance]

Spellbind is a different thing completely, because it affects the monster. Otherwise, talking about player stats, there is no difference between the dr% on gear and the dr% you get from that aura, just like I wrote above.

[ChuckNoRis]

Spellbind is a different thing completely, because it affects the monster.

same goes for those inside the colosseum arena / under the effect of warp filed aura

[Nolan]

so is all the DR from your gear one source? or each peace of gear is a source?

[Scalewinged]

All damage reduction aplied multiplicative but damage reduction in % can't go over 50%. And flat damage reduction (1-XXX damage reduced) applies always first before percentage. Otherwise it could give you phys immune. So the order is:
debuff on enemies
flat dmg reduction
% damage reduction

[Ever_A_Noob]

debuff on enemies
flat dmg reduction
% damage reduction

Oh, that kinda sucks. Was hoping it would be the other way around. Warrior's Robe less valuable now IMO.

[Orthrus]

Minions also usually get your spell damage boosts right?

unless they are under the influence of an aoe damage boost spell (as Bloodlust /Gift of the wild) , no . your elemental damage boost from gear does not boost the minion spell damage , just yourse . also , hoplites do not benefit from incarnation , just from plague ; incarnation is only boosting fire/cold/magical/physical spells , poison is not included


for those hoplites to work fine it is required the usage of either colosseum or divine aparition to jump on top of a target ; you teleport your hoplites with you so they may focus their attacks on your opponent .

Thank you for clearing that up.

[Ever_A_Noob]

Does +% spell damage work on passive elemental damage sources such as Dragonfire Oil and Force of Nature? (I presume no since it isn't really a spell)

[Crash]

Does +% spell damage work on passive elemental damage sources such as Dragonfire Oil and Force of Nature? (I presume no since it isn't really a spell)

To my knowledge, no. Pierce will work, obviously, but I think because they aren't active damage spells, it won't boost. I could be wrong.

[archon256]

Does +% spell damage work on passive elemental damage sources such as Dragonfire Oil and Force of Nature? (I presume no since it isn't really a spell)

No. Basically.
It's... complicated.

'%Spell Damage' should really be called '%Elemental damage', since it applies to all damage you do with that element, whether it's a spell or an attack. But as it turns out, missiles that carry Weapon Damage (so any projectiles created by a WDM skill, like Shower of Rocks' rocks, or the bolts fired by Fairy Ring) cannot carry information about how much '%Elemental damage' you have. That means it effectively just applies to spells... except that it also works for direct melee hits you make when swinging a weapon That means if you're a druid with a lot of %spell damage and you use Pummel on Diablo, the elemental damage applied by Pummel itself to Diablo and monsters around him won't be effected, but big D himself will take more damage when your woodfist punches him in the dick.

[Ever_A_Noob]

Basically.
It's... complicated.

So, Dragonfire Oil + Parasite. The WDM missiles it releases only carry the 'base' amount of fire damage, but the monster I hit gets the Dragonfire Oil damage * my elemental spell damage modifier?

Basically I should stack -enemy fire resist to make Dragonfire Oil more useful?