Skill Questions

[Gaz]

Skill Questions

Now i apologise if these have been asked before, but I can't seem to find the answers anywhere.

I'm playing a poison necro in a tournie and would like to know if the size and duration of the poison cloud from poison explosion increase as you increase the skill level.

Secondly, I am about to start an Impalazon for another tournament and have a few questions. First does critical strike add 50% of the base weapon damage, or does it double the final physical damage. E.G. with skill level 20 impale you get 775% enhanced damage, so if critical strike goes off would that be +825% damage or +1550% damage? Secondly, in a similar vein, does the might aura add to this enhanced damaged or multiply the total damage?

 

[Rizzo]

1.: lookie lookie. (It doesn't (I think!))

2.: CS works as DS. It doubles the listed physical damage.

 

[corax1]

1. poison nova duration and size are constant IIRC
2.critical strike doubles the listed physical damage on your character screen. the might aura adds to the ED IIRC
:thumbsup:

 

[Rizzo]

Duration increases... so sayeth the Arreat Summit

 

[corax1]

are you sure??? im pretty certain the duration stays at 2 seconds.
quick someone with a psn mancer

 

[Gaz]

Poison Nova I know about, the duration of the poison is 2 seconds and the range is constant.

@rizzo - had a look there already, but doesn't tell me what I want to know.

The poison explosion duration I am looking for is the duration of the poison cloud as the duration of the poison is skill dependant.

The thing I am having a problem with is the poison cloud that comes from a corpse when you use poison explosion

 

[Randall]

Poison Explosion:
The time increases with the skill lvl. At lvl 20 it is 9.6 sec (at lvl 40 17.6 seconds)

I could find nothing on the size though, can't tell you about this.

Randall

 

[Rizzo]

I'm playing a poison necro in a tournie and would like to know if the size and duration of the poison cloud from poison explosion increase as you increase the skill level.

The duration increase as stated on the Summit.
The size doesn't.

However I've heard someone say that the size does indeed increase, but for me that's just unconfirmed rumors Maybe some necro expert can answer this better? Or better yet, post screenies.

 

[corax1]

AFAIK the psn cloud is randomly moved so the clouds can be different sizes and shapes :thumbsup:

 

[factotum]

The duration increase as stated on the Summit.
The size doesn't.

That is the duration of the POISON--e.g. when a monster gets poisoned by the poison cloud, it's how long he'll stay poisoned for. This chap is asking how long the cloud hangs around the place and is ABLE to poison monsters.

 

[Gaz]

Right well seeing as how no-one can give me a definitive answer, I will be doing some experiments. Am going to save the character as it is now with low level PE. Will then play some more and once I have max PE will compare them both in a nice open area like the bloodmoor and we shall find out.

Edit: Following corax's excellent suggestion below will mule the required items on tonight and give it a go. Expect an answer tomorrow. I have a Sigon's gaurd, tarnhelm, angelic set. that's +3. Might be able to dig out some more plus skills equipment. Will see if I can find a +3 to Poison explosion wand with one of my other characters as well. Should be able to get +6 if I try hard enough.

 

[corax1]

depening on what gear youve got available you could test it now
the difference given by a sigon shield, infernal set, angelic ring ammy n armor should be noticable. thats a +2 skill difference. so you should notice it

 

[Gaz]

Right well after some very inconclusive testing last night, I think I can say that it doesn't appear that the duration of the poison cloud and the size of the poison cloud change as the skill increases. Damn that's depressing.

The test was conducted with +4 to skills and +0 to skills, so the 4 point difference should have been noticeable.

 

[Vajar]

the size doesn't increase.. I have a 40 something poison explosion and its radius is very minimal, about the range of a boss's fire explosion