Shield Throw Questions

Attunement (if you hover over the Eruption node & hold alt it gives you some more info.

No, damage type is independent to ailments (stun, ignite, etc). You can ignite with a cold skill & if you have 0 ignite chance a fire skill won’t ignite.

Correct, it just changes the damage type to void, so it can then benefit from +% void damage & idols that reduce the mana cost of void skills. Yes, it takes precedence over Molten Shield. The Shield Throw can’t echo as it’s not a melee or spell.

Not sure since we can’t know the base shield damage.

If you’re going for hit damage, yes, they would be.

Eruption is awesome since it’s hit is counted separately to the Shield Throw hit & can therefore proc anything (life on hit, future strikes, ignite, stun, etc) twice on the target hit. Personally I tend to go for using Shield Throw (+ Eruption) to proc various effects, be that future strikes, poison or ignite.

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