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This is fundamentally not possible. It would need to apply to reductions as well, because increases and reductions are the same thing. That thing just gets described slightly differently when it's negative. And I don't think turning reductions off is something people would want.

This is specifically not supposed to work. During development of the unique the stat description was set to make this clear, saying "...when you gain a Buff from your Aspect of the Avian Skill". But it looks like that was changed to the current wording at some later time when cleaning up the descriptions. My best guess is the clearer one was word-wrapping on some resolutions, and was changed to be shorter without realising that the part specifying it had to be your aspect of the avian skill was important. I have made a note to get this improved in the future.

Thanks for pointing it out.

If a dev comment is buried in a thread, it's quite possible that it's only relevant to that thread, and presenting it out of that context, under the initial post, may be misleading (see my other post above for an example)

Devs should NEVER be downvoted regardless of whether anybody likes or doesn't like what they are saying.

I'm not convinced this is true. I've definitely been known to go off on tangents to the point that I could be considered off-topic, and despite my best efforts, occasionally I will misread a question and give an answer that doesn't actually apply to what was actually asked, and could be misleading - which should be downvoted because it's not relevant to the actual question asked (and if it's misleading, lowering it's visiblity until my mistake is pointed out and I can fix it is a good thing).

With regard to the overall suggestion though, I can see why it would be useful, but personally I'd prefer it to only have links to the dev responses, rather than also quoting the text from them, because it's reasonably common that I won't answer the main question of a post because several other people already have, but will respond to a different q...

Bytepath was great. I do think you should check it out sometime, it's an interesting take, but based on what I've seen of your game here, I'd say you're probably right that they're different things. Both have similar moment-to-moment gameplay, and both aiming to have a varieth of builds, but Bytepath had a strong focus on the huge passive tree and pathing through it in different ways. Which was both very cool and also seems to not be a big thing for your game, based on how your upgrade system is shown in the post.

This looks very cool, I'm keen to try it out. I'm particularly interested in playing with your upgrade system and seeing how it works.

Because that's how it should work? The spectre has it's own skill that you don't have, the trap is using your skill. It isn't possible for you to own a spectre's minions because you don't have a skill that they can be minions from, which is necessary to give them the correct stats.

Looks like CwDT skills currently trigger when their damage total exceeds their threshold, not when it is exactly met. Have made an issue to fix this.

Good catch!

When a trap creates a minion (including, but not limited to, skeletons), those are your minions, not the trap's. This is very important, mechanically, because otherwise they wouldn't be limited by your minion limit, each trap would have it's own set of skeletons - none of which would be able to deal damage, since minions can't deal damage when their summoner is dead, and in this hypothetical, the skeletons belong to the trap (which dies after using it's skill), not you. The minions are yours, not the traps, because that's necessary for minions to function correctly.

When your trap fires a projectile, that projectile comes from your trap, and is part of the skill used by your trap. This is important, because it matters for things like returning, reflect, leech, and a host of other mechanics. Those projectiles are not yours, they are the trap's, because that's necessary for projectiles for function correctly.

This is not every interaction being "adjusted on a...

There is no immunity to anything generally. It's always either a 100% reduction in damage see CI or 100% avoid ect.

There is immunity, and CI applies it. Immunity is a boolean state, not a 100% damage reduction.

Even things like divine shrines are just a 100% reduction in damage.

The Divine Shrine does make you immune to damage, it is not a 100% damage reduction. You cannot take damage in any way while under the effect of the shrine.

You can still die while under its effects.

Yes, but not from taking damage. You can still be Culled, lose life from some non-damage source such as Rage or a Caustic Flask, etc.

unaffected should not be treated the same as 100% reduced.

You are correct, it should not. That's what we fixed here. There was a big purge of using these stats this way to emulate "unaffected" a while back, but this one must have been missed (or possibly added in after that in the incorrect way).

There is no "Additional Block Chance" in the game since the refactor to block stats in 3.4.0. Prior to that version, all forms of "additional Block Chance" did require some base block chance to add to.

Likewise, the change made here swapped the Dodge chance granted by those nodes to no longer be "additional" so it would apply even if you have no other Dodge chance.

It would not. CI does not work by setting resistance to 100%, it works by making you immune, which is a boolean state. Being immune to chaos damage also sets your resistance to 100% entirely for display purposes, but that has no mechanical effect because being immune means your resistance is never applied to incoming damage anyway.

That happens because it was decided that it would be cool if your resistance showed as 100% in the character panel while you were immune, not because that's functionally how the immunity works.

It's likely that the resistance change will eventually be removed, because any future effects which scale things based on your chaos resistance would want your resistance to actually maintain it's value, rather than becoming 100%, when you become immune.

No. That damage is not, nor was it converted from, cold damage over time.

It comes from cold damage (not over time) and is fire damage over time, but it was never cold damage over time.

How do the two durations on the brands work? For example, if my Storm Brand is on the ground and detached for 6 seconds, then it attaches to some mob for 3 seconds and kills it, will it despawn while being detached after 1 second or 4 seconds?

The detached duration only expries while it's detached, and the attached duration only expires while it's attached. In your example, it's used up 6 of the 10 seconds in it's detached duration, and 3 of the 5 seconds in it's attached duration.

Also, does it despawn or detach after being attached to a mob for 5 seconds?

When either duraiton expires, the brand is gone. There'd be no point keeping it around in either case as it can't do anything - if the attached duration expires, it can no longer be attached to things and thus will not activate, and when the detached duration expires it can't stay there detached, but also can't attach to things (because if there were t...

Glacial Hammer has never been main-hand only, so removing that restriction from skills doesn't affect it.

No. I was using Double-Strike as an example of a skill which was restricted to Main Hand Only, and thus loses that restriction in 3.5.0 because that restriction no longer exists in the game.

No. Setting action speed to 0 would be below the base value, which is disallowed.

This isn't a new change to freeze, it's been this way for several patches.

Will it add to the main projectile, additional projectiles

The answer is in your question - the distinction Lancing Steel has is that additional projectiles have different behaviour to the base projectile. The supports inherently add additional projectiles, so they have that behaviour.

This patch note was in error. Shield Charge was never a Main Hand Only, but was incorrectly included in the list of skills that lost that restriction. As such, it did not change.

It still only ever hit with the main hand, but that's because your off hand wasn't a weapon, not because it had a restriction to not alternate like the Main Hand Only skills, such as Double Strike.