poison and critical damage

Hi,

i don't understand how poison is calculated. The in-game tool tip show that 100% critical damage bonus from gem doesn't affect poison dps.

Why is that? I thought poison was calculated on the final damage, as they say in poison description in game. final damage should include crit multiplier, no?

So is it tool tip that is wrong, or me ?


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poison is a percentage of your hit, the crit scales your hit but doesnt scale the poison damage. the only stat that scales poison is poison magnitude and ailment magnitude

Yes, I got that.
To be sure:

if i hit for 100 phys, with 100% crit damage bonus, and 20% poison magnitude.
if i crit, poison dps should be 100*2*0.20=40

adding 100% crit damage bonus should give me 100*3*0.20=60


But in tool tip, you see poison dps change with modifiers to physical damage (like gem support heft), but poison dps does change change with critical damage bonus.

Is poison calculated on the final damage before crit damage of after.

Sorry if I'm not clear enough

Okay I did some tests on the act 1 boss.

Critical hits don't modify poison damage.

the poison damage output is the same for non critical and critical.

Everything about poison is confusing an non-intuitive and the game does not do a good job at explaining anything of it. If critical hits don't effect the poison what exactly is the poison dmg based on? I have a damage range, it is the lowest possible damage, the average or highest possible damage I can do? The DPS?

as someone said, poison damage is based on the damage of the phys+chaos of the hit, if you crit it'll use the non-crit values, you need Poison Magnitude and Ailment Magnitude to increase the poison damage.

Actually I saw a video that proves that crit effects the poisons.

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Tasden#5683 a écrit :

Actually I saw a video that proves that crit effects the poisons.

Link?

As jack613379 said, stronger hits cause stronger damaging ailments. Crits deal more damage, so they should inflict more harmful poison.

In case you have accurate tests proving that extra damage from crits isn't considered by poison (or ignite/bleeding), you should post them in the bug report section.