Aura of Decay 'Fume Weaver' skill point does not work as expected

My expectation for this skill point is that with 10 intelligence I would get 10% poison penetration. After being disappointed by the node in general gameplay and somewhat suspicious of the wording used (it does not mention penetration or shred), I tested it on the Arena dummy. I tested this with a lot of healing effectiveness, so I was on full HP as this could potentially affect damage with other skill points.

My testing method was to just stand still, turn on AoD and let it run for a while (starting at full hp). I get roughly the same damage ticks specced into the node or not.

edit: i messed up with snapshotting HP

I did some more testing and i concluded that:

  • I can notice the effect of 4% poison penetration on the dummy
  • I can’t notice the effect of the skill tree nodes for both ‘Fume Weaver’ and ‘Vulnerability’

I suspect that these nodes either don’t work as intended, or reduce the resistance to zero but not further as penetration could.

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