synergy through gcs

[gorash]

synergy through gcs

i just got a def aura gc for my avenger the other day in hopes that it would add a synergy to vengeance (+8% elemental damage per lvl in resist fire, lightning, cold).
i looked at vengeance before and after i had the gc in the inventory and yet it didnt' change the damage on the three elemental dmgs on that ability. Just wondering why is this?
Thanx

 

[Thaumaturgist]

IIRC Synergy bonus can only apply to hard points. You can't get Synergy bonuses from +Skills.

 

[Nos2]

Synergies only take into account the actual "hard skill" points that you invest in them and ignore any added skills from gear or charms. However, if you have not invested any points into a particular synergy skill and are granted that "skill" from an item, the game grants the skill level that you recieve from the item as hard skill points and treats it as a synergy. Marrowalk boots for a necro or a Carrion Wind ring for a druid are common abuses of this. Most people uses the charms to boost their main skill since they will not help increase its synergies.

-nos



--too slow on the draw

 

[Elgar]

However, if you have not invested any points into a particular synergy skill and are granted that "skill" from an item, the game grants the skill level that you recieve from the item as hard skill points and treats it as a synergy.

not quite accurate. the game grants synergies only if you have an item with charges and dont have a skill point in that skill. It will not work with +skill items.