Hey all. I got a question regarding SW. Since it has “channeled” as one of the scaling tags, does “increased damage while channelling” affect the explosion damage? I guess not, but if that’s the case, how can you scale the skill channelling wise? Only the “+ resistances while channelling” affix is useful?
I’d expect not since the explosion happens when the channel stops. It would affect any Furnace damage during the channel though.
Tyvm.
Just to verify @Llama8
His assumption was correct.
That was one of the very first things i tested when playing Smelter’s Wrath.
I think it would be fine if the explosions would still be buffed by “damage while channeling”, but we have to work aroudn that for now.
“All resistance while channeling” is very strong on smelters wraths though.
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Thanks for your testing. “All Res while channelling” does nothing if you are res capped though right? It would be nice if it was “damage reduction while channelling”.
Overcapping resistances can counteract Mark For Death and shreds for exmaple.
And since you expose yourself to alot of hits while channeling you do take alot of hits.
"All resistance while channeling in conjunction with the FG Mastery and the very first Point in FG, that gives phy resis + armour when you get hit, makes you very tanky when alot of small mobs hit you.
It’s definitely just a thing for later high MoF, but worth considering.
Thank you very much.
It’s handy if you have auras or anything like shield shrapnel though. Damage while channeling boosts all damage you do during the channeling.
Haven’t yet been able to test if already applied DoT increases by channeling. If it does imma make a build off of that. Maybe a bleed/ignite whirlwind build.
Every debuff/channel/dot is snapshotted in LE.
So it takes all your stats the time you had on applying/activating
Oh ok. So it would be initial skill activation time rather than when the secondary effects activate like a shield death. So basically even if you haven’t channeled in the past 15 seconds, the shield burst would get a damage buff from your %while channeling so long as your initial cast was within it?
The Shields from “Ring Of Shields” are considered minions and do not scale with your damage.
The only thing that directly applies to them besides minions affixes are all stats on your shield.
(This is even specified in the Skill’s Advanced Tooltip, if you press and hold [alt])
Well other example let’s say it’s wandering spirits. You cast it while channeling and stop before they spawn. Am I right to assume their projectiles and damage will still get the buff. Or will everything they spawn use the current snapshot.
Thought shields scales off your stats too for some reason x.x
Wandering Spirits is a very good example, since it’s an instant skill.
You can active “while channeling”,… literally.
All of your characters stat on the time you activated the skill affect the wandering spirits for their entire duration.
Any changes to your character stats why the wandering spirits already has been cast do not affect them.
To be honest, i am not an expert on FG’s Minion scaling, i just dabbled a little bit with manifest armour and only used Ring Of Shields defensively.
So i might be mistaken, but the Shields dmg and health should only apply from your shield and minions stats.
But i am not a FG expert, only VK 
May @Llama8 be summoned once again for his all-mighty Sentinel Knowledge.
Only the Manifest Armour scales from your stats & that’s if you take the relevant nodes. Though according to lastepochtools.com the stats on your equipped shield do apply to your Ring of Shields. So you could make them tankier with a good shield.
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