question about using dim vision+lower resist, and clay golem+holy freeze

[IcyMist]

1. can i use lower resist and dim vision together in any way?

2.what other spells can stack on top of lower resist?

3. if i have a clay golem that slows ememies by 50%, and holy freeze that slow them by another 50%, what does that do? is there a max slow %?

4. if a monster is poisoned can he still heal during the poison period? because if he can't heal while he's poisoned, then i will not be looking for a prevent monster heal item.

5. if i use marrowwalk(lvl 33 bone prison), does that mean i will automatically receive the lvl 33 synergy bonus even if i didn't add a point to the skill?

6.and if i maxed bone prison, does that mean i will have lvl 53 bone prison, and the bonus lvl 53 synergies?

7.is corpse explosion still an effective killing skill? is it obsolete now?

8. confused, synergy question: let say a synergy says +10% damage to poison dagger per level, if i am at lvl 20, i would have +200% damage, but what if i'm at level 30, does that mean i will have +300% damage?

9.anyone know the max damage per frame of any poison combination? what is the most powerful that you have seen?



10. the most urgent question: if i have level 20 poison nova and poison explosion, and equip myself with the runeword weapon venom which give level 13 poison nova(11 charges) and level 15 poison explosion(27 charges), does that mean now i have level 33 poison nova and level 35 poison explosion plus all the added synergy benefits?


thanks

[jiansonz]

1. Will you can keep monsters in the back Dimmed, while you use a more battle-oriented curse on the monsters you or your companion fight...

2. Inner Sight, Holy Freeze and Conviction are the ones that I know of. A monster that has been scared by Terror can be hit by LR and it will still run until it needs to make a decision.

3. It rocks. No doubt about that. Add chilling damage and Decrepify and most monsters will barely move. Especially Baal gets so confused, he can barely do anything useful.

4. No, monsters won´t heal while they´re posioned (unless thay have a life stealing attack or get healed by a Zakarum priest or Council Member). PMH can still be a good thing though. Many monsters are poison immune, and the PMH effect lasts way longer than poison (meaning: you don´t need to hit repreatedly to keep the monster from regeneration). Open Wounds is also an alternative. It lasts for 8 seconds after each hit.

5. This bug is for v1.10. You only get the bugged synergy effect if you have NO points in Bone Prison. Otherwise your actual invested points are used for the calculations.

6. No, you will have level 20 BP as an actual skill, and level 33 BP charges also available. You can hotkey either of them, or both.

7. It´s great, especially at low players settings (few players in the game, if multiplaying). It still works well at high players setting, just don´t expect to kill a whole pack with one casting. Spamming is needed then.

8. Synergies only add their effect based on the number of points invested. +skills will only help the skill that is actually used. Sorceress Masteries and the druid summon (wolf/bear) skill "boost each other" will get helped by +skills, though. They are different.

9. Nothing beats high-level Venom.

10. No. See answer to question #6.

[thegiantturtle]

4. no
5. in 1.10, yes. in 1.11 no
6. no (you'd have 2 separate skills at lvl 33 and 20) and no
7. still effective.
8. no. synergies add damage based on the level of the synergy. Whatever displays for the synergized skill's +% damage already includes bonuses for synergies.

10. charges do NOT stack with native skills. Hard points in native skills are the only thing that can GIVE a synergy. Both charges and native skills can receive synergy bonuses.

[Aeonios]

Charges, native skills, AND auras given by items like dream*

[zeskelnec]

What about CTC ?
Does a CTC 20 blizz on snowclash becomes lvl 25 if I have Occy + Viper + Lidlesswall ?

[IcyMist]

4. no
5. in 1.10, yes. in 1.11 no
6. no (you'd have 2 separate skills at lvl 33 and 20) and no
7. still effective.
8. no. synergies add damage based on the level of the synergy. Whatever displays for the synergized skill's +% damage already includes bonuses for synergies.

10. charges do NOT stack with native skills. Hard points in native skills are the only thing that can GIVE a synergy. Both charges and native skills can receive synergy bonuses.




i think i understood both of your answers to all questions except 8 and 10. let me rephrase the question becuz i think you misunderstood.



8.what i'm asking is

1 if poison explosion gives synergy bonuses to poison dagger at +20% damage per level.
2 and i have maxed poison explosion
3 which gives me now a total synergy bonus of +400%damage to poison dagger(20*20=400)
4 now i also wear mara's ammy that gives +2 to all skills
5 which ups my poison explosion skill level to 22
6 does that mean the original synergy bonus of +400% to poison dagger(at lvl 20) increased another 40%(2 skill level increase=20%+20%)to 440%
i hope i have clearified my question


10. i think what you are saying is:

1 if i put no skill points in poison explosion or poison nova and i use runeword venom, then i will just have lvl 15 pexp(charges) and lvl 13 poinova(charges), 2 but on my skill tree i will have lvl 15 poison exp and lvl 13 poison nova
3 but you say it does not give me the synergy benefits?

i'm confused and i'm asking this:
4 if i use venom runeword and receive lvl 15 poiexp and lvl 13 poinova skills
5 and im also wearing mara's ammy which gives +2 to all skills
6 does that mean now i have lvl 17 poiexp and lvl 15poinova?

7 my question basically is if i use the runeword venom and receive lvl 15 and 13 skills, IS THERE ANY WAY I CAN DIRECTLY ADD ON TO THE LVL 15 AND 13 SKILLS AND INCREASE IT(without have to start at zeor)(option 1:wear a +skills item?, option 2:click on the skill tree and increase the skill?)


thanks, i'm trying to figure this out:smiley:

[jiansonz]

7 my question basically is if i use the runeword venom and receive lvl 15 and 13 skills, IS THERE ANY WAY I CAN DIRECTLY ADD ON TO THE LVL 15 AND 13 SKILLS AND INCREASE IT(without have to start at zeor)


No you can´t. Charges for a skill have a fixed level (and a fixed amount of synergy boost to relevant skill(s)) as long as you don´t have a "hard" point in the skill. (BTW, what a ridiculous BUG this is...)

If you have no points in these skills, you will not see them on the skill tree screen. However, their synergy effect to Poison Dagger will be obvious when you look at the Poison Dagger icon.

[RTB]

No you can´t. Charges for a skill have a fixed level (and a fixed amount of synergy boost to relevant skill(s)) as long as you don´t have a "hard" point in the skill. (BTW, what a ridiculous BUG this is...)
Fixed in 1.11. Apparantly Blizzard thought so too.