Lots of questions regarding Hydrosphere:
- Does it work with totems? How about interacting with triggers?
- How does threshold for freeze/shock work? Do you always "freeze" the orb for three seconds (max) when you hit it?
- Other on hit effects, such as smashing the orb with Vigilant Strike or CoC proccing - does it work in any capacity?
Just to clarify -
Add onto the list : How does Hydrosphere works with skills that Freeze and Shock? If I hit it with Glacial Hammer, but I have Shaper of Storms... will it be Frozen or Shocked (or both?). What if I'm using Hexblast?
Hydrosphere can be frozen and shocked simultaneously, at which point half of the damage will be converted to Cold, and half to Lightning.
Do you know if casting (to move) the sphere resets the pulse frequency or if that's a separate timer? Something like On Cast > Move (.33) > Pulse (.4) > Move (.66) > Pulse (.8) > Move (1 second)
During the brief time it's moving on cast, the timer is paused, but the pulse frequency timer isn't reset.
How do you inflict the ailments on hydrospheres?
Will it be shocked by skitterbots?
Will it be hit by Orb of Storms or Arc?
Will it consume and attract chains from skills?
Will it consume/trigger pierces and forks?
Can you hit it with a skill like cyclone?
I'm sure there's other scenarios but I can't think straight right now. I currently assume the answers to this are no yes no no yes.
You can apply ailments to it as if the hydrosphere was damaged, though it never actually takes any damage.
Is it possible to proliferate ailments applied to hydrosphere?
No, Hydrosphere can't be proliferated from.
/u/Community_Team Does Cobra Lash's damage increase affect the poisons from the skill?
No, only hits.
Can I chain skills off Hydrosphere? This is important.
Yes.
is hydrosphere going to inherit map mods that modify ailments? since we are supposes to apply them by hitting it
The map mod giving monsters a chance to avoid elemental ailments doesn't apply its effect to Hydrosphere.
I was thinking about this, and went searching. Am I right in assuming that alt-quality Added Fire Damage ( Supported Skills have 20% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage ) *would* work?
As I understand it, there's no priority difference between Support and Skill Gems, so this 20% would get added to the total conversion pool to be scaled down to fit in 100%.
Yes.
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