Damage Explained (Last Epoch 0.9)

[@damagus90]

Thank you sir! I was theorycrafting last night on a piece of paper and wasn't sure about the order for damage, now I know: (Base+ Effective Added)*(increase&increase)*(More)*(more)

[@Facarwi]

thanks for the videos man so much help! One thing coming to this game I wanted to change is I always follow guides and wanted to theorycraft some builds of my own... Id love a video or two that combines everything. (asking alot seeing your videos are expansive already) but where you sit down with a basic idea for a build and step through the thought process etc.

[@retribvtion666]

Thanks for putting together this in-depth guide, this is very helpful. Question - is there a maximum/cap on penetration % you can do on normal mobs/bosses? I’m playing cold upheaval beastmaster with a staff and from the upheaval tree itself I can get up to 130% cold pen which seems really strong but I’m concerned that there may be a cap to penetration and exceeding the cap would actually be useless to my build?

[@svyatoslav_ezhov]

Case Examples (Calculating a Hit Skill): 1H-Sword Eye of Reen has +38 Melee Damage. Why are you counting it as physical and not adaptive for Flame Reave skill?

[@McFluffinGaming]

@@svyatoslav_ezhov this was made before it became adaptive. It has been changed to adaptive in the written guide.

[@svyatoslav_ezhov]

@@McFluffinGaming Thanks for the reply, I found these changes in patch 0.9.

[@urjkeenz]

Do tri-elemental skills benefit from all added / increased damage from any element or only the element with the highest stats?

[@McFluffinGaming]

Non specific added will be split proportionally among the damage types the skill has tagged. So if a skill has fire and lightning but only 25% is fire, then your added damage will be 25% fire/75% lightning. Increased damage is not split, but will only affect the appropriate damage type, so increased fire damage will only affect the fire damage in your skill.

[@Josh-rd5dw]

How can I check my base dmg itself in game? If I press c all I see is%

[@MagnusPersson-c3n]

A question for you. I am using swipe that has 2 physical base damage with the shattered lance set that gives me 1500% increased cold damage. But the damage is very low. The 2 physical damage cant have that much of an impact since the weapons give me alot of flat cold damage, right? And everything else is geared towards cold damage.

[@McFluffinGaming]

Swipe is default tagged Physical, which means your adaptive melee damage on the weapon is also going to tag Physical. That item doesn't have a lot of adaptive though, so I'm guessing your problem has more to do with Multipliers, Pen/Shred, Crit, Etc.

[@GamingWithPedrito]

So if you have a weap with +10 cold +10fire +10 physical and you use physical, does that mean the +10 cold and fire becomes physical?

[@McFluffinGaming]

If an added damage source specifies the damage type (i.e. +10 cold) then it does not change the damage type unless you convert it through a skill.

[@earnestbennett7203]

Forgive my lack of comprehension, it seems you said sources of "flat damage", don't apply to a skill if that skill doesn't have a matching tag. If I have a physical melee skill and I add +2 fire to all melee skills, would that not apply?

[@McFluffinGaming]

Yes, because it has the melee tag you'll get the +2 fire. Note that it might not scale well if the skill increases sources of Physical damage.

[@earnestbennett7203]

@@McFluffinGaming Thank you!

[@cyrusol]

I didn't yet understand the part about shred and penetration. Why does fire shred/penetration reduce physical resistance?

[@McFluffinGaming]

fire shred/pen reduces Fire resistance. Did I accidentally say Physical in the vid?

[@cyrusol]

@@McFluffinGaming Nah, in the written guide: "Example: If you have 10% Fire Penetration and 4 stacks of Fire Shred on a non-boss enemy, you have reduced their Physical Resistance by 30%."

[@FinioVega]

does int increase spell dmg???

[@eradicusthewarrior9736]

we really need a critical chance calculator :/ especially for throwing :p !

[@ssl33p]

ok so.... how do i do more damage?

[@ikxius4404]

by adding damage to your build.

[@richardkim3652]

What does necrotic damage do?

[@McFluffinGaming]

It's just a damage type like Physical, Cold, Void, etc.

[@yammoyammamoto8323]

This was about as intelligible as a drunk Schwarzenegger trying to speak French... ...and as helpful as explaining how a single chop-stick works. If Lightning Blast/Static Orb gets converted from Lightning to Cold. - Does 100% increased lightning get 0%, 50%, 100% of its value counted? - Does 100% increased cold get 0%, 50%, 100% of its value counted? - Does 100% increased magic get 0%, 50%, 100% of its value counted? Attacking the dummy is about accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake... while the tool-tip seems to indicate all kinds of odd numbers - like lightning getting

[@McFluffinGaming]

You sound angry. Are you OK? As stated in both the written and this video guide, only the base damage is being converted, nothing else.

[@UnashamedlyHentai]

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