As we all know, % damage debuffs such as Resolve, bad medicine, piercing shout, etc. affect all direct attacks from affected monsters. I'm fairly certain the answer is no, but I'm wondering if the aforementioned debuffs affect aoe effects cast by actively debuffed monsters as well? I.e. debuffing a plagued, molten, arcane enchanted champion pack with resolve (25% less damage dealt). Would this damage decrease carry over to the molten, plague, and arcane effects as well? Or is damage debuffing really only effective vs direct damage attacks?
This is an extremely important question because of its implications on how worthless or worthwhile damage debuffing is.
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after extensive testing the answer is undoubtedly no. damage debuffs do not effect the things most likely to kill you, making them overall much less useful than previously thought. The question is; was this intended, or a bug?
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That damage is most likely not done by that monster, but cause from another object (like an arcane laser or a poison pool). You obviously can't debuff those objects.
Why is that obvious? The monster is casting these things based on there DPS it should apply.
When an arcane laser kills you, the source is reported as arcane sentry - i.e. an object summoned by the boss, not actually the boss itself. Those arcane lasers shouldn't give vampiric bosses any life. I thought plagued fields did give life though, implying that they aren't separate objects.
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This is an extremely important question because of its implications on how worthless or worthwhile damage debuffing is.
cheers!
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