Elemental damage completely dominates this game, physical remains useless

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Moosifer a écrit :

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deteego a écrit :

He also said that physical used to be predominant damage (without elemental conversion). Chris says a lot of things, he happened to say both those things as well

What part of "predominant" means pure?

I GET YOUR POINT... I UNDERSTAND

Anyways, moos is saying that there has never been a physical only build (bear trap/ek use conversion aswell fairly often).

Any physical build will often use hatred or added fire damage, which aren't conversion as such but addition.

I consider conversion to be like hrimsorrow gloves, where 25% of your damage IS elemental, as opposed to added fire where it adds 30% of your damage.

So as such, I doubt there is a single build that is purely physical and run for super lategame with no additional elemental, things like hatred and added fire damage are just too effective to ignore most of the time.

That being said, yes, physical could be improved. Yes there are builds which are primarily physical (Facebreaker builds are the obvious candidtate for "these are physical based"). But even those use conversion

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Real_Wolf a écrit :

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So as such, I doubt there is a single build that is purely physical and run for super lategame with no additional elemental, things like hatred and added fire damage are just too effective to ignore most of the time.
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That's precisely why we need items/gems with "less % elemental damage" to support physical builds without enhancing damage through added fire and hatred.