10-18-2012, 06:44 AM
(10-17-2012, 08:18 PM)Aahzmadius Wrote: This seems like a good place for a build question. Last night I found 2 Storm Crow wizard hats. I gave the better one to a friend who uses a wizard all of the time. I kept the other, and was wondering about doing a lightning build since it gives an 8% boost to lightning damage.
When an item says something like "Adds 7% to lightning damage" it doesn't actually effect your lightning damage unlike what it sounds like. All it does is take all the physical damage from your weapon and other items and then add 7% of that damage to your total as lightning.
Depending on how much physical damage you have on your weapon and items will effect how much actual benefit you gain from the bonus of the helm.
Some items, like Frostburn, do actually effect the specific elemental damage but the attribute on the items that effects this is labeled something like "Cold skills deal 20% more damage".