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Originally posted by KidZesty

Does Oriath’s end behave in the same way even though it’s a flask effect?

Originally posted by mineral4r7s

So does despair work for Original Sin as the ring states "Nearby Enemies Chaos Reistance is 0" and despair states "cursed enemies have -X% to chaos resistance"? Or is the devil in the detail and the "is" fixes the resistances at 0 and renders despair useless?

Also getting a reply from Mark. Today is a good day. Keep doing the good job you and the team do \o/

Originally posted by mineral4r7s

If they use Balance of Terror then its for wither. Otherwise is 0 is the same as inquisitors "ignore enemy elemental resistances".

If u want a damage curse use punishment and temporal chains

Originally posted by Arturion

There's a fair number of mechanics at play here, so I'll try to be as thorough as possible. I'm going to assume we're talking about Inpulsa's explosions here, but most of this carries over to other similar effects.

1. Yes, the explosion damage is "your damage". It benefits from modifiers to lightning damage, area damage, and generic damage, but it is not spell damage or attack damage, so won't be affected by those. It will also benefit from debuffs on enemies that reduces their resistances or causes them to take increased damage (such as curses, exposure, etc.). The damage has 0% base crit, but if, for example, an enemy is brittle or is cursed by Assassin's Mark, the damage can theoretically crit.

2. Shaper of Storms will not let this damage shock, even if converted - the restriction on Inpulsa's isn't tied to the damage being lightning, and so it doesn't matter whether you convert it or not. If you want to have chaining explosions, you'...

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