Does Venom work for kicksins?

[bartekwoda]

Does Venom work for kicksins?

Ok, so I'm a complete newbie when it comes to assassins and just made my first one ever (kicksin). I dropped a point into venom, but noticed that it doesn't show in my character damage in the character window after I cast it. I think it still works, because when I kick monsters, they get poisoned and I don't have any other source of psn dmg. But just making sure: does venom work for kicksins? Also, does other elemental damage not show in the character window?

 

[Vindictive]

It works. It doesn't show on char screen.

 

[bartekwoda]

It works. It doesn't show on char screen.

Yeah, ok, thats what I thought. Just wanted to make sure. Thanks a lot.

 

[Lunatic]

Fire . lightning , cold , poison and magic dmg will transfer into your kicks. The lying stat screen just doesn't show it. Only physical dmg won't transfer.

What I'm wondering is the following though. Because The redeemer and astreon's add dmg to smite (normal +dmg doesn't work either there) , would it also add dmg towards kicks? I can't test this myself, because I don't have any of these 2 weapons.

It would be fairly easy to test. Just get the most crappiest boots around (hotspurs anyone) and kick your oponent. (no other equipment , because that would screw up the test). Then put on astreon's / redeemer and kick again. If this works there should be a substantial increase in dmg.

Not sure if anyone has tested this already once though.

 

[bartekwoda]

Fire . lightning , cold , poison and magic dmg will transfer into your kicks. The lying stat screen just doesn't show it. Only physical dmg won't transfer.

What I'm wondering is the following though. Because The redeemer and astreon's add dmg to smite (normal +dmg doesn't work either there) , would it also add dmg towards kicks? I can't test this myself, because I don't have any of these 2 weapons.

It would be fairly easy to test. Just get the most crappiest boots around (hotspurs anyone) and kick your oponent. (no other equipment , because that would screw up the test). Then put on astreon's / redeemer and kick again. If this works there should be a substantial increase in dmg.

Not sure if anyone has tested this already once though.

Ha, I was actually wondering the same thing today. I saw my redeemer on a mule and thought: hmmm..would this add 116 dmg to kicks? I have to check it out. I still have to wait a while though, coz my sin is only lvl 36 now and the clvl req for the redeemer is 72

 

[jrichard]

Luna and Bartek,
nope, it doesn't add to kicks. Kicks don't get anything from +physical damage modifiers on any equipment and they only get +%physical damage from non-weapon sources. Even then, the +%physical damage is only figured into the second half of the kick damage equation.

jrichard

edit: An interesting aside: There is a +kick damage affix in the game files which is unused. I tested it in single player and it does affect kick damage. It would be nice to see blizzard activate that one for us. Probably won't happen, however, as i could easily see it making some kick skills very overpowered. TS/Dtailers in particular would attain insane damage numbers.