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i have a new question since i know some of u have super understanding of the game mechanics
if i do coc on my wand, my wand does fire damage, I CoC out a cold spell i have elemental equilibrium
i attack, and immediately crit and proc the cold spell, on the first hit.
is the cold and the fire together, or do i get the -50 resist for my cold?
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The attack with fire damage occurs first so you get the damage boost for your cold spell. Even an instant-cast spell with no travel (aka cold snap) should still hit after the fire dmg from the attack.
HOWEVER
CoC means that you will be casting spells brutally rapidly and of course after the first cast the enemies will be cold resistant again so you will lose overall damage despite your first hit being boosted.
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but then when you hit with fire again shouldn't it switch back to cold?
so if your big numbers are from cold anyways shouldn't EE always be proccing for the cold?
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EE's one of the mechanics I have a fairly poor grasp of, but no they retain the resistance to the one element for a significant amount of time afaik. In the end they just end up resistant to fire and cold and mega-vulnerable to lightning.
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Equilibrium works instantly.
the instant that you hit a monster with an attack the game looks at what you hit it with and creates the new resists for the monster. Assume that you hit it with only fire, the monster is now vulnerable to lightning/cold and extra strong to fire. If you are for instance an elemental cleaver or something and attack with fire and lightning at the same time the monster is going to only be vulnerable to cold. It creates the EE effect on each hit done to the monster.
There are no lingering effects to it as far as I know.
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On April 16 2014 04:14 CrownRoyal wrote: There are no lingering effects to it as far as I know. Dafuq does this mean? The resistances last for some amount of time
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ok after doing some research it looks like it will be overwritten instantly, otherwise it would linger for 5 seconds
honestly i just find it hard to believe that no one uses EE i guess cuz auras..
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On April 16 2014 04:17 travis wrote: ok after doing some research it looks like it will be overwritten instantly, otherwise it would linger for 5 seconds
honestly i just find it hard to believe that no one uses EE i guess cuz auras.. How many casts of whatever skill we are referring to do you get per crit?
Using Split-arrow + Chain I could get 18 casts per crit (highly unlikely but you get the idea) so after the first cast, all the successive ones would be damage nerfed before I could re-proc EE.
However, good to hear how it works.
And yeah auras fuck things.
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On April 16 2014 04:15 Sn0_Man wrote:Show nested quote +On April 16 2014 04:14 CrownRoyal wrote: There are no lingering effects to it as far as I know. Dafuq does this mean? The resistances last for some amount of time
The debuff is overwritten instantly with each damage instance.
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Yes, thats what travis said so I believe him (which means I was wrong originally). That doesn't really make his post make sense though but I get what was being said now.
My only real experiences with EE involve it fucking me over in maps on my Elemental spectral thrower.
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On April 16 2014 04:17 travis wrote: ok after doing some research it looks like it will be overwritten instantly, otherwise it would linger for 5 seconds
honestly i just find it hard to believe that no one uses EE i guess cuz auras..
Lots of people use EE, but it is incredibly irritating to gear for it on weapon attacks. Pretty much any trap or spell build will use EE because -50 resistance is really strong and easy to take advantage of in such a situation, especially for fire based builds proliferating ignites.
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I use EE. T_T I guess im a nobody.
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On April 16 2014 04:28 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 16 2014 04:17 travis wrote: ok after doing some research it looks like it will be overwritten instantly, otherwise it would linger for 5 seconds
honestly i just find it hard to believe that no one uses EE i guess cuz auras.. Lots of people use EE, but it is incredibly irritating to gear for it on weapon attacks. Pretty much any trap or spell build will use EE because -50 resistance is really strong and easy to take advantage of in such a situation, especially for fire based builds proliferating ignites.
(only for solo play or parties with no mutiple elements)
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Oh yeah hm what about the Evasion roll ? Afaik one attack either hit all or miss all. So in the case of AOE like lmp spectral throw which hit multiple enemy, whose evasion value does it use to check against our accuracy ?
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On April 15 2014 09:59 travis wrote: dont really get what is going on with my CoC discharge
most of the time it works fine..
but sometimes i get into a group of enemies and i just sit there spinning them... i am hitting them.. i can see my cyclone damage very slowly moving their bar down
but i dont discharge and i don't get power charges.. so im not critting? but im literally hitting a group of 5+ enemies what 5-6 times a second? even without power charges im at 48.2% to crit
SO WHY AM I NOT CRITTING. how can i spin for 3 seconds and not crit. that's hitting like 50+ times. you can't lose 50 coinflips in a row.
sometimes i recognize it is because of some sort of weird delay where my discharges don't go off until well after i've crit, like a 1-2 second delay. but ive literally just sat there spinning in a group and slowly died before because i didn't get my leech from discharge The entire cyclone crits or doesnt. So when you are hitting 5-6 enemies you are either critting against all of them or critting against none of them. Also, what are you using to gain power charges? PCoC or Volls chest? If you are using PCoC you will only get 1 power charge per cyclone, where as with Volls chest you will gain a charge for every single enemy you hit during a crit. Basically you want to keep your cursor extremely close to your character and just direct them in the area that you want to go, holding down cyclone, this means that you will have more opportunities to crit and it will reduce your desync. The delay on your discharges is most likely desync, but its hard to tell with just your description of it.
Edit: I thought I was on the most recent page, and I wasnt. oops
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I really should make a video of me mapping with this 1200ms ping my internet is giving me lol
i literally just randomly cyclone over and over and nothing happens on my screen, enemies are just everywhere not moving then boom like 2 seconds later 3 screens worth of enemies will blow up
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On April 16 2014 12:14 travis wrote: I really should make a video of me mapping with this 1200ms ping my internet is giving me lol
i literally just randomly cyclone over and over and nothing happens on my screen, enemies are just everywhere not moving then boom like 2 seconds later 3 screens worth of enemies will blow up
Congrats on devising a build that can tank desync
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On April 16 2014 02:56 vndestiny wrote:Show nested quote +On April 16 2014 00:38 eluv wrote: Eschaton too busy owning HC Diablo 3 with us! K burn him AT the stake. Harsh judgement must be made. Actually just told him to lend me 2 of his rings and all shall be forgiven xD + Show Spoiler +I know oneofthem is playing d3, but didnt know Eschaton is atm too ?
I've been found out =o
short version is I've taken two ~1-week trips and also started a new job in the last 3 weeks. It doesn't leave me enough time to race with any expectation of hitting any of the rewards, which honestly I'm not too excited about anyway. Haven't quit PoE by any means, but d3 is letting me be super casual while I get irl things under control.
vndestiny: can loan you the rings, but you may want to dump a few divines into them if you're going to use them
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On April 16 2014 13:35 Eschaton wrote:Show nested quote +On April 16 2014 02:56 vndestiny wrote:On April 16 2014 00:38 eluv wrote: Eschaton too busy owning HC Diablo 3 with us! K burn him AT the stake. Harsh judgement must be made. Actually just told him to lend me 2 of his rings and all shall be forgiven xD + Show Spoiler +I know oneofthem is playing d3, but didnt know Eschaton is atm too ? I've been found out =o short version is I've taken two ~1-week trips and also started a new job in the last 3 weeks. It doesn't leave me enough time to race with any expectation of hitting any of the rewards, which honestly I'm not too excited about anyway. Haven't quit PoE by any means, but d3 is letting me be super casual while I get irl things under control. vndestiny: can loan you the rings, but you may want to dump a few divines into them if you're going to use them If you were going on a trip gotta tell me man + Show Spoiler +
On April 16 2014 12:24 ticklishmusic wrote:Show nested quote +On April 16 2014 12:14 travis wrote: I really should make a video of me mapping with this 1200ms ping my internet is giving me lol
i literally just randomly cyclone over and over and nothing happens on my screen, enemies are just everywhere not moving then boom like 2 seconds later 3 screens worth of enemies will blow up Congrats on devising a build that can tank desync I handle 400-600 ping all the time in boss rooms, no idea what's the fuse about
Edit: I feel abandon ...
On April 16 2014 08:26 vndestiny wrote: Oh yeah hm what about the Evasion roll ? Afaik one attack either hit all or miss all. So in the case of AOE like lmp spectral throw which hit multiple enemy, whose evasion value does it use to check against our accuracy ?
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