I was watching Kripp's stream after he killed Inferno Diablo on hardcore and Athene came on and made a bodacious claim about a new over-powered gear stat that will allow him to retain his ridiculous dps even after 1.0.3 IAS nerfs. He said the boots Zunimassa's Journey were incredibly over powered because of the 6% to poison damage mod. He said it doesn't just add to poison damage, but 6% damage on top of everything. Meaning if you had 100k dps that single mod would raise your damage to 106k dps... I believe this is wrong.
I don't have the money to buy a pair of these boots, but I did just happen to find a Tal Rasha's Adjudication, which adds 5% to holy damage. I assume this is the same mod as the one on zunimassa's, so I did some tests.
Either Athene is completely wrong or I'm missing something. My tal rasha amulet has 131 int, so I bought a cheap 131 int amulet. I also bought two identical weapons, one with holy damage and one with arcane damage.
The tal rasha amulet with 5% holy damage only added about .008% damage increase over the magic amulet. This increase occured regardless of the fact that I don't have any holy damage modifications or spells. I imagine this was because the base damage is simply "a fraction of each damage type at once" and it only added one sixth of 5%.
The holy damage weapon had slightly more damage than the arcane weapon with the tal rasha amulet equipped.
This leads me to believe the elemental mods are working as intended...
Maybe there is something bugged with the boots and that's what Athene was talking about, but just a fair warning, don't buy into his misleading information.
I imagine if I had a tal rasha amulet with 5% to arcane damage, that would greatly increase magic missile and arcane orb damage done by those spells specifically, but not to venom hydra or blizzard.
Has anyone been able to test Zunimassa's Journey? How much damage does it give you?
I don't have the money to buy a pair of these boots, but I did just happen to find a Tal Rasha's Adjudication, which adds 5% to holy damage. I assume this is the same mod as the one on zunimassa's, so I did some tests.
Either Athene is completely wrong or I'm missing something. My tal rasha amulet has 131 int, so I bought a cheap 131 int amulet. I also bought two identical weapons, one with holy damage and one with arcane damage.
The tal rasha amulet with 5% holy damage only added about .008% damage increase over the magic amulet. This increase occured regardless of the fact that I don't have any holy damage modifications or spells. I imagine this was because the base damage is simply "a fraction of each damage type at once" and it only added one sixth of 5%.
The holy damage weapon had slightly more damage than the arcane weapon with the tal rasha amulet equipped.
This leads me to believe the elemental mods are working as intended...
Maybe there is something bugged with the boots and that's what Athene was talking about, but just a fair warning, don't buy into his misleading information.
I imagine if I had a tal rasha amulet with 5% to arcane damage, that would greatly increase magic missile and arcane orb damage done by those spells specifically, but not to venom hydra or blizzard.
Has anyone been able to test Zunimassa's Journey? How much damage does it give you?
its a bug. will probably be fixed.