Infused Channeling Support gem Question

Hi all, can someone tell me if the "Supported skills deal 40% More damage" Infused channeling descriptor, affect Poison/Dot damage as well?

Yes, as long it does not state specifically "attack damage", "spell damage", "projectile damage", or "hit damage" (with the expection of "hits and ailments", which will work), a boost on damage will also affect DoTs, and damage-tyoe boosts on damage (ex: Chaos Damage) will also affect DoTs of that damage type (ex: Poison)

A generic "increase/more damage" will thus apply to all DoT

Mind, however, that some DoT skill also have a modifier "This skill's spell damage will also apply to its damage over time" (ex: Contagion, Essence drain, Soulrend, Vortex...). This bypasses the previous rule and will make "increased/more spell damage" bonus also affect DoTs for that specific skill. This is an exception.

One last, unrelated thing: Infused Channeling's effect only applies to the channeling skills, and will not apply to any other skill linked to it while being supported by Cast on Critical Strike or Cast while channeling.
Therefore, in a Cyclone - CwC - Spark - Infused channeling setup, only Cyclone will benefit from Infused Channeling, not Spark

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Maxtrux escreveu:

Yes, as long it does not state specifically "attack damage", "spell damage", "projectile damage", or "hit damage" (with the expection of "hits and ailments", which will work), a boost on damage will also affect DoTs, and damage-tyoe boosts on damage (ex: Chaos Damage) will also affect DoTs of that damage type (ex: Poison)

A generic "increase/more damage" will thus apply to all DoT

Mind, however, that some DoT skill also have a modifier "This skill's spell damage will also apply to its damage over time" (ex: Contagion, Essence drain, Soulrend, Vortex...). This bypasses the previous rule and will make "increased/more spell damage" bonus also affect DoTs for that specific skill. This is an exception.

One last, unrelated thing: Infused Channeling's effect only applies to the channeling skills, and will not apply to any other skill linked to it while being supported by Cast on Critical Strike or Cast while channeling.
Therefore, in a Cyclone - CwC - Spark - Infused channeling setup, only Cyclone will benefit from Infused Channeling, not Spark

Ok,ty very much. Sometimes the skill text can be confusing or misleading so i had to make sure.

interesting qustion

i wondered adding a skill with only infused channeling (2 links) just to proc infusion

so my essence drain dot is up by the infusion state or not ?

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Djarkan_ escreveu:

interesting qustion

i wondered adding a skill with only infused channeling (2 links) just to proc infusion

so my essence drain dot is up by the infusion state or not ?

Infused channeling can only support channeled skills AND channeled skills that proced it, so no.

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Djarkan_ escreveu:

interesting qustion

i wondered adding a skill with only infused channeling (2 links) just to proc infusion

so my essence drain dot is up by the infusion state or not ?

For purpose of clarity, let me quote the gem's effect and description:

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Description: Supports any channelling skill, protecting you from damage while you channel it. Cannot support Minions that channel skills.

Per 1% Quality:
Gain Infusion after Channelling a Supported Skill for -0.02 seconds

1) While Channelling a Supported Skill, take 8% less Damage from Hits of types matching the Skill Gem's Tags

2) Supported Skills deal (20-39)% more Damage

3) Gain Infusion after Channelling a Supported Skill for (1.6-1) second

4) Infusion lasts 6 seconds after you finish Channelling

5) Infusion grants 10% more Damage of Types matching Supported Skill Gem's tags

6)
Totems cannot gain Infusion

Suppose you are using a Blight-CwC-Soulrend-Infused Channeling. Let's see what happens for each of the gem effect:

1) As long you channel that Blight, you will have a 8% less chaos damage taken from hits (so it will not protect you from poison DoT, caustic cloud DoT or any other chaos DoT). This defensive bonus is used to compensate the fact that all channeling skill (except for Cyclone) leaves your character locked in place, which is VERY bad for survivability in this game

2)Your Blight will deal more damage. Only Blight will get the more damage bonus, since the skill specifically says it "supports channeling skills", and Soulrend is not a channeling skill. Also, the More Damage is generic, thus it will apply to the DoT Blight inflicted. If we used Wither instead of Contagion, a channeling skill that deals no damage, we will get no benefit from this part of the bonus

3)After some time, the caster of the channeling skill will get an Infusion buff. If you stop before that threshold, you will not get the Infusion buff. But how do this buff works?

4)The Infusion will last 6 seconds after the end of the channeling. This also means that, as long we don't stop channeling, we will have the Infusion buff active

5)Infusion buff will grant the caster +10% more chaos damage, for the same reason this skill gives 8% less chaos damage taken: Blight has a "Chaos" tag. Since it's a buff, ALL the caster's skills will benefit from that bonus. This actually means, with a lv20 Infused Channeling, Blight will actually have 49% More Damage (39% + 10% from infusion), and that Soulrend will gain the 10% more chaos damage from infusion. It would also benefit skills that are not linked to Blight, boosting their chaos damage provided they deal it in the first place

6)This is just a warning from GGG: you can, actually, support that Blight with both Spell Totem and Infused Channeling, but that totem will never gain Infusion, thus bonus 3-4-5 will not apply to it (1-2 will do, of course)

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Serakiel escreveu:

Infused channeling can only support channeled skills AND channeled skills that proced it, so no.

Are you sure you are not thinking about Cast While Channeling, which support a channeling skill and at least one non-channeled skill linked to it?