Question about cold damage

[In the name of Zod]

Question about cold damage

On the raven frost rings it reads:
Adds 15-45 Cold Damage, 4 sec. Duration (Normal)

Do breakpoint exist with cold damge since its duration is divided up by difficulty or does the decimal carry? In other words what will 7 seconds duration mean in hell?

Does each successive hit with cold damage reset the damage in the same way poison does? Will higher cold damage always over-ride lower applied cold damage?

Finally, the 15-45 damage mentioned above, that would be spread out over the 4 seconds in normal but would it be all applied in hell within a second or is just 1/4 of that damage is applied in a second?

 

[theBanger]

Re: Question about cold damage

Your miss interpreting how cold damage works.

The cold damage hits in a single shot, just like lightning, fire, or magical. The duration mentioned is the length of the chill that is left on the monster, it's not the duration that the damage is applied over.

As for total chill duration, AFAIK it is simply all added together; skill, item, and charm, and then multiplied by your difficulty penalty. 1/2 for nightmare, and 1/4 for hell. Because the damage is applied is a single shot, this has no effect on damage. Each extra hit resets the timer.

Also, poison damage doesn't really have a 'penalty' in other difficulties. It's duration actually lasts longer in NM and Hell. Twice as long in hell I think.

Hope this answers your questions.

 

[krischan]

Re: Question about cold damage

The duration modifier is actually 1/3 in hell. The whole cold damage is dealt at the instant it's applied, the duration is only applied to the slowing, as said.

For monsters, poison duration is unmodified in hell mode. Only characters have a 100% penalty.

The game measures time in frames (units of 1/25 sec), so the loss from rounding will be insignificantly small.

 

[In the name of Zod]

Re: Question about cold damage

Thank you, once again you guys have pulled through. That answers my question/s exactly. :thumbup:

 

[onderduiker]

Re: Question about cold damage

The duration modifier is actually 1/3 in hell. The whole cold damage is dealt at the instant it's applied, the duration is only applied to the slowing, as said.

According to both DifficultyLevels.txt (MonsterColdDivisor 4) and empirical testing (100 seconds reduced to 25 seconds in Hell against a monster with Cold Resist 0%) chill length is 1/4 in Hell. % Life and Mana Stolen per Hit are 1/3 in Hell.