Diablo III General Discussion - Page 709

On September 18 2012 21:13 Burrfoot wrote:
So basically: Adds % elemental damage only adds a bonus to whatever physical damage your weapon does (base+affix min&max) and not any fire/holy/lightning/cold bonus that makes up a good chunk of high dps weapons. The +8% Holy damage would not add to the holy damage on say, a Hallowed set weapon either, and neither do +elemental skill damage like Schaefers. Looking cool sometimes isnt the best way to min max! Hehe

On September 18 2012 21:18 Hairy wrote:

Also, bear in mind that not all of your abilities will be physical? I'm not certain, as I only play a barb. For example, only SOME of a wizard's abilities will be physical, whereas others may be entirely magic. I'm speculating though - best to find out properly.

I bought it for the cold damage snare, not for the damage ^.

On September 21 2012 03:40 unkkz wrote:
Struggling to sell a triumvirate because people dont understand how it works, kinda annoying.

On September 21 2012 04:15 Phael wrote:
if your weapon swing was 50,000 - 100,000 and your triumvirate had a combined +15% elemental damage, your new weapon swing is now 65,000 - 100,000 for a total increase in damage of around 10%. (an additional 2X% min damage).

This is assuming your original weapon swing was all physical element (ie you don't have +elemental damage type on your weapon.)

On September 21 2012 04:48 Warmonger wrote:


These numbers don't make any sense to me. Why is the +X% to <element> damage adding to only minimum damage, why do you list a 30% increase on min damage as an overall 10% damage increase, and what do you mean by "an additional 2X% min damage"?

On September 21 2012 05:12 Phael wrote:


Blame blizzard programmers. That is exactly the way it works.

The phrase "adds x% to [element] damage" translates to:

"Adds 2*x% of your minimum physical damage as [element] damage." - so a 15% triumvirate would add 30% of your minimum physical damage.

Assuming your damage range was 50-100k, as I did in the example, then adds +15% elemental damage from triumvirate would translate over to a 10% overall damage increase.

While this isn't as ideal as a straight 15% damage increase, the added damage -is- elemental in nature, so if you have a triumvirate, every attack has a fire damage component (which makes conflagration work with every spell.)

On September 21 2012 08:34 WhiteDog wrote:
So, is it the right moment to give another try to Diablo 3 or do I wait for the next patch ? (I hated the ah system and want to play without it).

On September 21 2012 08:42 WhiteDog wrote:

I played at the release, got fucking frustrated at act 2 inferno and couldn't do anything without farming gold and buying at the AH, because I never droppped a thing farming item in act 4 hell and act 1 inferno. But I liked the game aside from that, just the feeling you get from farming was so underwhelming, rare items doesn't have the charisma legendary had in d2 too.