How does the forged weapons/armour mechanic work?

[stebobibo]

@Heavy

The Minion get’s the Fire tag yeah, but I don’t think the melee attack it uses will get a fire tag.
Flat Added damage does usually not modify tags, there are only a few exceptions of this, which specifically state it.

Good to know, but it would be hard for any player to know. Because isn’t it inconsistent with how all the other tags in the game work? Like if my skill has a lightning tag, that means it does lightning damage and is a “lightning skill”. So I think they should make this clearer in game.

I was discussing something similar with Llama in another post about casting spells of another element type for mages. And we determined it was all about the tags. Here’s the thread link and some quotes from it. other element thread

@stebobibo

Does a skill only count as being a “fire skill” or a “cold skill” if it starts as that or a passive in its tree makes it that?

Only if it has the fire/cold/etc tag when you cast it. What it was originally is irrelevant.

@stebobibo

What about idols that add elemental damage, like the “of cooling” affix? Would all my spells be considered cold when I have that idol? Thank you!

No, that just adds flat damage, the tags are the important thing.