I am trying to determine what nodes from the Volcanic Orb tree are getting applied to both Cold Volcanic Orb and Fire Volcanic Orb when either is cast by the Cryolith or Pyrolith rings, as well as what class passives apply.
If the Rune of Winter passive from the Mage’s tree was selected, does it benefit the Cold Volcanic Orb, but is disabled for Fire Volcanic Orb? In other words, Fire Volcanic Orb would always be dealing fire damage no matter what?
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Does this mean that Rune of Winter’s benefits still apply to a Fire Volcanic Orb even when it deals fire damage? Would shrapnel from a Fire Volcanic Orb receive Rune of Winter’s freeze rate even if it dealt fire damage?
I assume that the set overrides or disables all damage conversion nodes that were chosen by the player as soon as one of the rings’ affixes are triggered. So, if I never touched the Frozen Orb node, the Cold Volcanic Orb that is cast by Cryolith would act as if the Frozen Orb node had been selected and then casts Volcanic Orb, converting fire damage to cold damage and also converting ignite to frostbite.
If I had taken the Frozen Orb node, the set would ignore the conversion effects of the node when the Pyrolith ring triggers, but still keep the effects of nodes related to Frozen Orb, such as Glacial Might.
Does this sound accurate?