Does doom brand scale off minion stats?

Acolyte
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If so… then terrorist zombies will be getting extra vests to go boom… big time…

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no, doom brand scale with caster stats, as the boom from the exploding zomb. so yeah, both are linked.
it’s profane oblation that scale with minion stats

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I’d have thought that the zombie death explosion would scale with minion stats given the skill is described as “Explodes caster dealing physical damage to nearby enemies.”
https://www.lastepochtools.com/minions/volatile_zombie

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try it on a dummy you will see. use the same weapon with added minion spell damage and without it, damage is the same.

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Melee skills are still referred to as “cast”. You can see examples of this in nodes of Shield Rush, Forge Strike, Smelter’s Wrath, etc.

I haven’t bothered looking if there’s any example, but I’d assume that “direct cast” affixes for melee skills would still be called that.

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Yes, but the bit I italicised was that it explodes the caster hence it should be the zombie that’s the caster & scale with minion stats. So if the zombie explosion is scaling with player flat damage then that should be a bug.

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Fair, I missed that part.

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Yeah, I’ll try & remember to check it when I get home.

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Zombie’s on-death explosion definitely does more damage with +minion spell damage. With no weapon equipped (& an unspec’d Zombie) the zombie was doing 1,082 damage on death, with a staff with +85 spell damage & 0 minion modifiers, zombie was doing the same damage. When I equipped a wand with +19 minion spell damage (& +59 player spell damage) it now does 2,300 damage…

Doom Brand, with no weapon equipped was doing ~240 damage, with the same staff it does ~1.2k, with the same wand (+59 player spell damage & +19 minion spell damage) it does ~950.

So Doom Brand clearly scales with flat player damage & Zombie pops scale with flat minion spell damage.

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interesting, and weird, for zombis it shouldn’t be

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I feel like it should though, since it’s a subskill that the zombie “casts” once it reaches a target.

Why do you feel that it should scale with player stats?