Does increased damage over time count as a “poison damage” modifier? Im trying to LP this spear and just working out which affixes will work so I don’t have to wait around for the perfect mod to drop. I have a T7 “increased damage over time for minions” spear and hoping this will work, even if i get lucky enough for it to hit the LP.
Depends.
The “poison” Ailment is damage over time. it scales with both “increased poison damage” and “increased damage over time”.
Afaik all poison damage in the game that players can do is damage over time, so both will work in your case.
Edit: Not that your own dot damage and “minion damage over time” are not the same. But I guess you knew that already.
Yeah its just annoying that some descriptions in this game are so vague. And since the extra damage from the spear only applies to rogues, the stat card won’t show anything…
Also should mention the weapon specifically says “your” poison damage modifiers, so I don’t know if that makes a difference or not in whether the “minion poison damage” applies. Im guessing it might not, but again, can’t really test it reliably.
They are talking about the special affix of Lethal Concentration.
If you press alt while hovering over the Tooltip it shows some extra description:
Your Poison Damage Modifiers also apply at (150 to 210)% effectiveness to your Skeleton Rogues and your Falcon
Your poison damage stats such as “increased poison damage” apply, but your poison ailment stats such as “chance to poison on hit” do not.
I never used this item but based on the wording and compared to some similar items/skill nodes I would say that generic %Inc. damage and %Inc. poison damage should work with that affix.
A similar node from Storm Crows (Fulminating Caws) specifies that lightning damage, elemental damage as well as generic damage increases work.
So because this is not further specified for Lethal Concentration I would assume it works here as well.
Ah damn, was thinking of the wrong thing.
Yeah, OP, Heavy is correct: That weapon just takes your poison damage mods and applies them to your minions.
Essentially a conversion of the character sheet value, regardless of what the poison Ailment does for you
I figured the generic affixes will work, but the specific affix for “damage over time for minions” is the one i have the highest tier and roll for, so I was hoping that it will work, and if not, then id rather save it for something else.
It won’t boost the minion damage over time stat from your exalt, no.
It’ll still apply on any minion dot ofc, but you are probably better off eventually getting T7 increased poison damage.