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Okay, I conducted a few tests with a dual-wielding Seraphim. Applying DoTs while dual-wielding works differently when using a standard left click attack and when using a CA. When using standard (default) attacks, both weapons can apply a secondary damage effect and will consequently inflict DoTs. It is possible to inflict a poison-DoT with one weapon and a fire-DoT with the other weapon in a single attack. Interestingly, it does not seem to matter how much damage the off-hand weapon deals. The amount of both DoT-types (main and off-hand) seems to be based on the total damage inflicted and not on the actual damage of the specific weapon hit. This behaviour is in line with the mechanic described in the wiki: For all damage calculation only the main hand weapon damage seems to used. When calculating the %-chances to inflict the secondary damage effects (which is done based on the amount of damage inflicted per element) the damage differences between main-hand and off-hand weapons are considered. Example: When using a main-hand weapon with 1000 poison-dmg and an off-hand 'stat-stick' with only 200 fire-dmg, the chance to inflict a fire-DoT is much smaller than inflicting a poison-DoT. However once the DoT is triggered, both DoTs inflict the same amount of damage per tick. Sadly, this is not the case when using CAs. When using Soul Hammer only the effect of the main hand weapon is used, even if two hits are applied to the target. If using CAs (which will be the case most of the time) it is not necessary to use two weapons with different elements, instead it would be better to use one weapon that can inflict two elements (fire/poison). This way it is possible to inflict both types of DoT without switching weapons, even though it's not possible to inflict both DoT-effects in one single CA-attack. When using multi-hit attacks (I just tested Pelting Strikes) the same behaviour is observable. Even though the animation suggests, that you hit multiple times with both weapons, this is not the case. You just use the main hand weapon and can only inflict DoTs of this weapon. I haven't tested the behaviour of other CAs.

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Hello, It has been some time since I last played.... I installed Sacred 2 Gold from Steam, and installed the 1.60 Community Patch what other mods or patches do I need or can I just play with that?

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Looking forward to your results, and thanks a lot for the explanation!

As I understand it, two things are needed for delivering high damage-over-time: 1. Consistently applying fire / poison DoTs. A high conversion rate will help with this. 2. Delivering heavy hits - as much damage as possible with the DoT-proccing hit. The skill 'Damage Lore' will also greatly increase the chance of inflicting fire/poison-DoTs. (It will also increase the chance to apply magic & ice secondary effects, but these do not deal any damage.) The mastery bonus of the Damage Lore-Skill will NOT increase the duration of poison and burn DoTs over the hard-cap of 5 seconds. My observations indicate, that the bonus might counteract enemy resistances, which may reduce the duration of DoTs below 5 seconds. The last thing is a kind of speculation on my side. I cannot say this for sure. About your question: I am sorry to say that I did not test dual wielding weapons of different elements yet. I just testet multi-hit attacks. If both hits of a dual-wield attack are capable of applying DoTs, then it would be better to use weapons with different elements and a high conversion rate on each one. This would result in consistently applying two different DoTs simultaneously, which could be really powerful. Very interesting. I will test dual wielding and report my findings.

Here are the results of my tests: I duplicated two weapons of roughly the same damage: 1st weapon - pure physical damage a) with low-level converter (29,2% converted to poison-damage) b) with higher-level converter (65,5% converted to poison-damage) 2nd weapon - with two damage types (70% physical - 30% fire damage) a) without damage-converter b) with higher-level converter (68,2% converted to fire-damage) All four weapons consistently delivered the same results when used on exactly the same enemy (Black Wolf, Lvl 111, Niob, The enemy had no visible resistances (yellow bar) against any elemental damage.): Any hit with ca. 1750 dmg inflicted resulted in a DoT of ca. 275 dmg per tick Any hit with ca. 2000 dmg inflicted resulted in a DoT of ca. 320 dmg per tick Any hit with ca. 2250 dmg inflicted resulted in a DoT of ca. 345 dmg per tick All critical hits inflicted more damage with the initial hit and consequently resulted in higher DoT-ticks. Conclusion: The amount of elemental damage inflicted does not correspond with the amount of damage over time the enemy takes, only the total damage inflicted on the hit, that procs the DoT is taken into account, when calculating the DoT.

very good to know, I had no idea spells and combos showed that casting speed info. ill be looking at that from now on. thx

It's good to know that my memory isn't hopelessly lost. Thanks for the tips!

Yes, QuestExplow = {20,25,30,40,50}, and QuestExpmax = {4020,5025,6030,8040,10050}, Can be adjusted to whatever you like. Basically, the low number is the reward for 1 star quests and the max numbers are for 5 star quests. It's base values, which then get multiplied, depending on character level in some unknown formula. Just make sure you never make the low number higher than the max number. If you do, it will cause an overflow and give you like 2 billion XP the moment you turn in a quest.