Can Spell Totem CRIT if you have resolute technique picked?

It makes your skills unable to crit and totem casts your skills so they are unable to crit as well. Blind should work with firestorm.

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soze a écrit :

It makes your skills unable to crit and totem casts your skills so they are unable to crit as well. Blind should work with firestorm.

And how sure are you of this?

Since the +1 totem skills prevents you dealing any damage with your skills, only totems can deal damage.

...and still the totems deal damage. And also your TRAPS that you cast.

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nocebo a écrit :

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alfims a écrit :

Your totems won't crit. But:

There are nodes that let you apply status alignments without having to crit. E.g. Static Blows (top left of the tree next to Minion Instability)

How sure are you about that? What's the logic?

I am not the totem. "YOU cannot crit."

Why can you deal damage with totems and traps, when you pick the +1 extra totem that prevents you dealing damage via skills then?

The totem casts as though you are casting the spell yourself. Therefore it uses your stats. If you cannot crit, neither can the totem.

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BurnOutBrighter a écrit :

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nocebo a écrit :

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alfims a écrit :

Your totems won't crit. But:

There are nodes that let you apply status alignments without having to crit. E.g. Static Blows (top left of the tree next to Minion Instability)

How sure are you about that? What's the logic?

I am not the totem. "YOU cannot crit."

Why can you deal damage with totems and traps, when you pick the +1 extra totem that prevents you dealing damage via skills then?

The totem casts as though you are casting the spell yourself. Therefore it uses your stats. If you cannot crit, neither can the totem.

Why your totems AND traps can then deal damage with the +1 totem keystone "YOU cannot deal damage via skills"?

It's they (traps, totems, minions) who deal damage. But totems use your spells/attacks, exactly as they are. Example:
You stack crit chance, totems use your crit chance.
You remove your crit chance, totems still use your crit chance - which is now zero.

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soze a écrit :

It's they (traps, totems, minions) who deal damage. But totems use your spells/attacks, exactly as they are. Example:
You stack crit chance, totems use your crit chance.
You remove your crit chance, totems still use your crit chance - which is now zero.

Thanks for verifying this.

Now I really don't know how I should proceed. :)

At least quality versions of added lightning damage, added cold damage - have still the option to proc shocks/freezing...

Although I suppose the freeze duration follows the damage? And as my cold damage via firestorm is like ...5 cold damage/projectile, it lasts for like 0.01s :D

Thank you, Mark!

Few more follow-up questions though: Is each projectile for firestorm a "separate" entity for the 5% base crit and thus also separate for status alignments?

How is the shock / burning / freezing duration calculated?

I mean, I expect that the freezing is more like a ministun, if the cold damage (with crit) is 10 damage vs L70 monster?

But can a shock really last only 0.01s?

Is there some minimum amount of time? And how about burning?

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Vipermagi a écrit :

Crits are rolled per-cast; if one fireball in a Storm crits, they all do.

The Mechanics thread in Beta General has all the information on Status Ailments you could need :)
Quick and dirty; you need to hit a minimum duration for Shock, Chill and Freeze to apply in the first place, and the duration is based on target's Max Life. Burning always lasts 4 seconds. Firestorm is really shitty for inflicting Status Ailments.

It actually seems to work very well, considering blind at least.