So when you convert them to cold, you “sync” the damage as it’s base physical is converted to cold and poison changes to frostbite, which is cold DoT. That does make it easier to target it’s scaling.
And the thorns will pierce if you invest in Branch Storm (this was fixed recently).
I keep swapping between both right now trying to figure it out. It certainly feels like my mono boss damage is lacking no matter which I try, but I may not have figured out the right combo yet. That said, I LOVE cold in general as unless it’s a boss, it’s almost guaranteed to be frozen. And you can blanket the screen with ice vortexes blowing up converted thorn totems (tied to healing totem of course). That video I posted kinda showed it, I just didn’t spread them around.
Yeah, can’t remember if it was one or the other (or both). Either way, both effects are good and now they both work
You have to take the ice thorn conversion node in thorn totem along with rotten core (the poison cloud node towards the top right). The Alt tooltip on the ice thorn totem node describes how it works.