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Arkardo
29-10-2007, 01:27
I was wondering about this: what roles do magic damage charms play? I realize that cold and poison damage charms are sources of chill and prevent monster heal. Also, poison charms help shorten the duration of certain poison skills. Venom, Rabies, Poison Dagger and the poison javalin skills without lowering their damage. Venom should only have one, I heard, though I don't know whether the others would benefit from poison charms at all.

However, unlike physical damage charms, their damage does not get multiplied by anything, save Fire and Lightning Mastery. So, unless you're using an elemental melee/ranged Sorceress, you can't improve the damage in any way.

Taken together, I think of magic damage charms as nothing more than utilities, and that's only the cold and poison damage charms. Am I wrong thinking like this? Did I make a mistake in my reasoning?

lendial
29-10-2007, 01:41
they are mostly useless save the ungodly high psn dmg scs.
even the godliest ele dmg mods that can only drop from thak/baal/diablo arent that hot, what ever use they have would be overshadowed by their extreme rariety.

cold charms for frost maidens.
psn charms for some bowazon builds.
cold charms for perhaps .00001 second of chilling effect in pvp?

Seismos
29-10-2007, 13:37
I would like to add my couple cents.

Elemental damage charms can be quite useful for melee characters that do not have lots of elemental damage on their equipment. A few high damage large charms can make a difference between killing a physical immune and leaving it behind unscathed.

Nimbostratus
29-10-2007, 16:22
Fire charms are useful for any character using Exploding Arrow or a bow that fires them. IIRC, any fire damage you have gets added to the explosion.

Merick
29-10-2007, 17:59
Skills and builds that can take advantage of elemental damage charms because they have little physical damage or they have a mastery or they can lower enemy resistances or they use facets:

Frozen arrow/other elemental arrows
Blade fury
Vengeance
Conviction zealot
Melee sorc
Holy freeze or holy shocker
Fire bear or wolf
Poison dagger
Lightning javazon or spearzon
Passive zon
Elemental skill martial artist
Venom
Rabies

Arkardo
29-10-2007, 19:34
Thanks for the comments, especially Merick, as I had forgotten about lowering resists and facets.