Does Armor Shredding reduce enemy’s Cold resistance? Trying to get more damage and Recurve happens quite often. I took passive that changes my Physical to Cold Heartseeker.
Also, is there any point in having more Recurve chance higher than 100%? I am not sure how Recurve works. I know it hits back and forth quite a few times now. Any idea how the formula work and if it’s good to keep stacking Recurve chance (or diminishing return is too much). Thanks.
I love Heartseeker skill!!!
No, armour shred reduces armour. Cold resist shred reduces cold resist. Armour reduces all hit damage (though non-phys at a lower %).
Each time Heartseeker hits & recurves it’s subsequent chance to recurve is reduced by 20% (multiplicative), so the higher your starting recurve chance, the more likely it is to continue to recurve.
Ok. I haven’t seen much of Cold Resist shred in the game. A lot of item base has Armor Shred % and even Passives have armor shred. I was just curious if it’s worth getting them to get more damage since it Recurves back and forth.
My problem is that I am trying to get more damage for my Gold Heartbreaker and a lot of Rogue specifics items don’t apply to that build? I see many Poison/Physical/Armor Shred/Ignite/Bleed stuff. My only option seems to be Critical route. I think Bleed is converted to Frostbite. Not sure if it’s worth it. I don’t have a whole lot of Damage over time buffs.
Yeah, you can get it as a blessing & sometimes skills or passives give it.
It is.
Are you following a guide?
Yeah, cold isn’t really a Rogue element.
I generally don’t follow a guide. I have been playing Path of Exile for over 6 years. There is no Armor Shred in PoE and Damage over time works quite differently in poe as well. There is also no “recurve” mechanism in poe. lol
Looks like for Cold Heartbreaker to work well, I need to go with DoT Frostbite. I don’t know if it’s a good idea to rank up both DoT and Critical. Generally in PoE, it’s not a good idea.
DoTs never crit, so it’s not a good idea, unless you get some other benefits from it (rare).
Cold Heartbreaker is the best version of Heartbreaker, but only with these two uniques:
Mourningfrost for flat damage
1 LP Reign of Winter with the crit/attack speed mod for lots of extra hits
It didn’t feel like it was worth swapping off of fire before then, though I didn’t try scaling frostbite very hard so it’s possible it’s ok.
Thanks for the unique advice. I did get the Boots. One of Heartbreaker passives is to get Cold resistance very high so you deal Cold penetration. I never play this game far enough to really get into item customization. My resistance is barely capped. I think the passive says for every 10% over cap, you get 1% Cold penetration. Is it worth to stack cold resistance? I guess I need to stack cold resist if I am to wear that unique boots.