Damage modifications

[Jarulf]

Sorry Jarulf, just a little confused now.  In the Beta, I was messing around with +PSD% on Druids and Assassins.  When playing around with a venom sin (level 33 -act 5 created in normal), I noticed that with venom active it took me about 100 attacks to reduce an act 5 doors life to about a quater.  without venom I could kill one in about 4-5 hits.  At first it was thought that venom was transfering all damage to poison, but that still didn't asnwer why I was able to damage the door.  But Ruvanal explained that the damage done by each type inflicted was being worked out seperatly, then summed to find total damage.  My posion damage was being reduced to a negative amount, by the doors 1000% poison resistance, that when summed with the rest of my damage bought my total down to zero or a very small amount.

This was in an AB thread  a while ago.

Poison is never part of the total damage since it is dealt on a "per frame" basis through the life regeneration. It is calculated as two parts, a damage per frame and a duration in frame. The damage per frame will typically be quite small to start with (with a duration of 4 seconds) the per frame damage will be 1/100 of the total poison damage. Since the game do actually add 1 frame of poison damage to the total, even counting and extra +1000% we would get like a tenth of the total poison damage transfered to the total damage possibly negative in the beta I assume. As of now, you should not get negative damages anywhere though.

I am also very bad at all the acronyms, no idea what PSD% is for example and venom sin, I really don't know either. I think Ruvanal said venom is a special case for poison as far as duration goes but I really don't know anything about that. Since I have not looked at the beta, I can't tell how things work there though. Are you still saying that a door that is kiled in 4-5 hits, suddenly is not damage at all when adding venom? (adding poison damage to the attack). otherwise I don't understand what you are saying.