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The wiki is correct, in that all the modifiers are applied after conversion. This is important because it means they can all stack together correctly.

However, modifiers apply based on what type the damage is, and what type(s) was converted from. So fire damage that's converted from physical damage is affected by modifiers to fire damage and by modifiers to physical damage.

Importantly, all "increased" and "reduced" modifiers to a value stack additively (this is the stacking part I mentioned before). This means that if you have 100 physical damage, and convert 100% of that damage from physical to fire, then if you have stats granting "10% increased physical damage", "10% increased fire damage", and "10% increased damage", those all apply to that damage, but becasue they're all increases, they sum together to a total 30% increase and apply together, resulting in a total of 130 fire damage.

This is different to if the physical increase applied before the conve...

The shock and chill of the skitterbots is already an aura, it can't be made an aura again by proliferation. The buff granted by an Aura can't also be an Aura itself - if it could proliferation itself would go infinite.

This has been brought up internally as there are more sources of ailments that are inhernetly auras, and I suspect eventually there will be changes to the description on proliferation to be clearer, but it's not the top of the priority pile at the moment.

The totems are using your skills, which have your stats. The consecrated ground will see the stats of the skill that created it, which in this case will have your stats for modifying it.

This image does not actually show Pestilent Strike's AoE. That red circle that has been drawn is smaller than the actual effect (both mechanically and visually)

That's some cool maths and all, but the base radius of Pestilent Strike is 27, not 5. Both the radius, and the in-game visual effect, are bigger than the red circle drawn on the image shown here. That circle isn't actually indicative of anything.

Reservation is never (and has never been) considered a Cost. Costs and Reservations are entirely separate.

(Aggressive minions have their targeting range raised to a minimum value)

(Defensive minions have their targeting range lowered to a maximum value. They always target enemies around you) "

Isn't that backwards?

No? Aggressive imposes a minimum, which means they can't be below that value. This can thus only ever make them have larger aggro range (raises value if it would be below the minimum).

Defensive is the opposite - it imposes a maximum, which means it can only ever make their aggro range lower, if it would be above that maximum.

Does it start casting after the detonation time has passed?

This one. However, Mines have the point where their spells "go off" right at the start of their cast animation, so this doesn't delay the effects of the spell, just that they must finish the cast animation before they can do anything else. In the general case they have nothing else to do but die, so this doesn't matter, but it comes into play if they will re-arm after casting.

For it to return from a target, it has to have already used it's chains - if it had chains left, it would have chained from that target instead of returning.

For returning from terrain/max projectile range, it can do that with chains still remaining, but since it always pieces while returning, it cannot use those chains.

No, "to you" is defining the direction they return in, they don't stop when they reach that point.

Reserving is spending, actually. Otherwise Blood Magic wouldn't work with it, among other things.

Non-following minions are nonfollowing specifcally because you're not supposed to be able to bring them with you. Convocation isn't an exception to that, it's a tool to make following things able to follow you even if you move faster or do things like teleport around that make it difficult for them to follow you on foot.

Pride doesn't work because Generosity specifically says it doesn't work with auras that only affect enemies.

That is equally true of the Shocking Skitterbot's Shock aura and the Chilling Skitterbot's Chill Aura - both auras only affect enemies.

Also, neither is an aura skill, those auras are inherent to the skitterbots like rare auras on monsters or item auras on players.

Yes.

No, it just means that those mechanics force those stats to recalculate for each hit. Limiting it to only when such stats are in play limits the performance impact of those recalculations, because they only get done for the object with those conditional stats.

Conversion is applied on your character to your damage stats, which have minimum and maximum values. You can see that this happens because you can see that the min and max values of each type are already calculated on your skill, accounting for conversion.

Calculating a hit from that skill just does a roll for each damage type that has a nonzero maximum value.

Doing it your way would make combat orders of magnitude less efficient due to way more calcualtions needing to be done on-the-fly for every hit.

That is not how damage works.

No. That stat uses "full life" as shorthand which is more easily understood by new players, where the full description would be much more complicated and liable to confuse people.

No. Leech and flask effects are removed when you have no more unreserved life that can be recovered, regardless of whether that's actually at full life or not.

Modifiers affecting socketed gems are support effects that are build into the item and support all gems socketed into them. Like other support effects, they apply to minions created by the skill.