Damage charms

[qscwdvefzrax]

Damage charms

I am starting a new melee char and needed some info about charms. Here are some questions that I have thought of, maybe I will think of more later.

1. Does each charm add damage each time I land a hit?

2. Max dmg charms. Is the damage counted as physical, magic or some other? Is the damage on these charms affected by +%ed jewels on armor? on shields? on helms? on weapons? on gloves?

3. Cold charms. Sometimes the enemies shatter and sometimes not. How is this determined, and how does it change by difficulty. For that matter, how long will a monster stay frozen from one charm? Will freeze length change for larger numbers of charms? Will freeze length change for higher dmg charms?

4. Poison charms. Is the damage done in one second simply the damage/duration? How does this work on a fury druid, hitting multiple times per second?

5. Does life steal include damage from elemental charms?

 

[Evrae Altana]

1. Does each charm add damage each time I land a hit?

Yes

2. Max dmg charms. Is the damage counted as physical, magic or some other? Is the damage on these charms affected by +%ed jewels on armor? on shields? on helms? on weapons? on gloves?

It counts as pyshical damage. Don't know about the other questions.

3. Cold charms. Sometimes the enemies shatter and sometimes not. How is this determined, and how does it change by difficulty. For that matter, how long will a monster stay frozen from one charm? Will freeze length change for larger numbers of charms? Will freeze length change for higher dmg charms?

Freeze length will increase with more cold charms. Freeze length is determined by how many items you have that deal cold damage and the difficulty (full duration for normal, 1/2 for NM, 1/4 for Hell).

4. Poison charms. Is the damage done in one second simply the damage/duration? How does this work on a fury druid, hitting multiple times per second?

For the first question, yes. Second question: hitting the target again does not stack any more poison on it. It simply resets the timer on the length of time on which the target is poisoned.

5. Does life steal include damage from elemental charms?

No, you steal life only from physical damage.

 

[thegiantturtle]

2) max (and min) damage charms are added to your total weapon damage. That is then multiplied by all off weapon ed% (from all armor types, stats, skills, and auras)

3) Cold charms add to freeze length of freezing arrow, but not to hit freezes target. They do add to chill length. The amount of damage on the charms is not important, just the number of cold damage mods (a charm with both a cold prefix and suffix is worth the same as 2 charms each with a cold prefix).

 

[qscwdvefzrax]

For the first question, yes. Second question: hitting the target again does not stack any more poison on it. It simply resets the timer on the length of time on which the target is poisoned.

Very helpful, thanks. One question about the poison though, when the first hit lands and adds poison, the poison duration is set. When the second hit is landed, does the poison on the new hit add to the poison from the first hit and reset duration, or does the remaining poison damage from the first hit get lost?

Freeze length will increase with more cold charms. Freeze length is determined by how many items you have that deal cold damage and the difficulty (full duration for normal, 1/2 for NM, 1/4 for Hell).

What is the freeze length per charm?

3) Cold charms add to freeze length of freezing arrow, but not to hit freezes target. They do add to chill length. The amount of damage on the charms is not important, just the number of cold damage mods (a charm with both a cold prefix and suffix is worth the same as 2 charms each with a cold prefix).

What is the chill length per charm?