'Purge' Modifier

[toastylewis 0]

I just started a new Inquisitor (Windows PC, single player, Silver difficulty, softcore) and I chose 'Purge' as the bronze mod for my 'Purifying Chastisement'. (I know that 'Mystic' is generally regarded as the better choice, but my old xbox 360 Inquisitor used 'Mystic', and I wanted to try something different this time around. Plus, I think that flaming weapons look cooler than weapons with glowing blue lines floating around them, and this new Inquisitor happens to have a streak of vanity that is almost as great as his lust for power...) Anyway, my character is at level 26 and my buff is currently at level 11, and I have not chosen any mods other than 'Purge' so far.

 

When I look on my bonus display, I see "Damage:Fire +40.0%", and this bonus is not there when the buff is turned off, so it is clearly the bonus from 'Purge'. Unfortunately... this bonus doesn't seem to get applied. Anywhere. Both of my weapons deal a bit of fire damage by default, and in addition to this they also have embedded Lava Chunks converting some of their physical damage to fire (about 33 percent, in both weapons). This means that my 'Callous Execution' and 'Ruthless Mutilation' both deal fire damage as well, being that they are both weapon-based CAs. However, the damage of my normal attacks and the dame of both of those CAs doesn't seem to change at all whether 'Purifying Chastisement' is on or off. (As determined by looking at the tooltips before and after activating the buff.)

 

So, I think that either I am experiencing a bug or I am misunderstanding the mechanics of this mod. The portion of my damage that is fiery is over 100 at the lowest, which I'm pretty sure means I should be getting 40+ points of bonus fire damage with each strike when the buff is going, and even more than that when using 'Callous Execution'. Am I wrong? If so, what exactly is 'Purge' doing for me, if it's not increasing the amount of fire dame I do? What is that 40% being added to? My xbox Inquisitor, who used the 'Mystic' mod, had the magic damage on his weapons amplified appropriately with the buff activated, so why is my Windows Inquisitor not receiving a similar benefit from 'Purge'? I realize that the damage bonus from the "main part" of the buff is only given when your elf is at less than 100% health, but the bonus from the mod should be added even at 100% HP, yes? That's how it worked for 'Mystic', at any rate. If someone could shed some light on this matter for me, I'd greatly appreciate it.

[MTCityHunter 0]

When I look on my bonus display, I see "Damage:Fire +40.0%", and this bonus is not there when the buff is turned off, so it is clearly the bonus from 'Purge'. Unfortunately... this bonus doesn't seem to get applied. Anywhere. Both of my weapons deal a bit of fire damage by default, and in addition to this they also have embedded Lava Chunks converting some of their physical damage to fire (about 33 percent, in both weapons). This means that my 'Callous Execution' and 'Ruthless Mutilation' both deal fire damage as well, being that they are both weapon-based CAs. However, the damage of my normal attacks and the dame of both of those CAs doesn't seem to change at all whether 'Purifying Chastisement' is on or off. (As determined by looking at the tooltips before and after activating the buff.)

 

Well, I'm pretty sure that elemental damage modifiers generally apply before damage conversion from weapon gray sockets (I.e. lava rocks), so having +fire damage in this case only modifies weapon damage if the weapon in question has intrinsic fire damage. I don't believe it modifies the conversion damage provided by the lava rocks. So unless the weapons do a good deal of fire damage with nothing socketed in them, purge (or mystic for that matter in the case of magic damage) should not boost their damage to a noticeable degree. CAs like LA and IS don't have this problem because the damage boost is direct.

 

My xbox Inquisitor, who used the 'Mystic' mod, had the magic damage on his weapons amplified appropriately with the buff activated, so why is my Windows Inquisitor not receiving a similar benefit from 'Purge'? I realize that the damage bonus from the "main part" of the buff is only given when your elf is at less than 100% health, but the bonus from the mod should be added even at 100% HP, yes? That's how it worked for 'Mystic', at any rate. If someone could shed some light on this matter for me, I'd greatly appreciate it.

 

Are you absolutely sure about that? I don't believe mystic should have boosted weapon damage to any large degree either, unless the weapons you used had intrinsic magic damage in large quantities (before damage conversion). I know that my inquisitor has mystic, and I use a magic damage converter in my main hand, but its damage is not appreciably boosted with or without PC turned on. I simply prefer weaken as a status infliction over the others. My weapon has no intrinsic magic damage, so it makes sense to me that its not boosted by mystic.

 

OTOH, hallow, or any other +%damage modifier WILL boost weapon damage as that boost occurs irrespective of damage type. Along the same lines, if you're using a weapon with only intrinsic physical damage, +%physical damage modifiers will also boost weapon damage, even if you have an elemental modifier socketed because that +%damage occurs before the conversion.

 

Purge does however, have a nice synergy with RM if you choose the singe mod on that CA, especially in combination with damage lore. See This Build for more info on that. Using weapons with intrinsic fire damage will also get boosted by purge (but only the fire portion, so that increase may be quite small).

 

Still, if you're using weapons with built in fire damage, and are seeing ZERO increase in damage with PC turned on, you could also be experiencing a bug.