Thanks for the analysis Perry. Homebrewing a (probably bad) Cinderstrike ignite marksman (actual bow). This was super helpful for my future scaling!

I want more ailment builds like ignite glyph of dominion where it feels like a proper DOT build with the playstyle of setting your DOT and letting it do the damage. Really not a fan of how DOT builds in LE are mostly high attack/cast speed builds. About the ailment duration, it makes sense in the sense that you extend your damaging time so you can keep doing damage while you do other things like dodging attacks, but this doesn't seem to work as well in LE compared to POE because of how their ailments differ, and how much more easy it is to stand still and attack in LE. Side note: After playing Path of Exile and experiencing the constant damage of their DOTs compared to the tick based system so many games use, idk if I can truly be happy with DOT builds ever again with a tick based system lol

I like these videos a lot Perry. You will always be the SME in my heart. One suggestion that would be super helpful for me and probably many others: go over the major changes to balance in upcoming patches. I imagine I'm not the only one who doesn't understand the implications of the changes. This might bring more traffic to your channel as well.

I like Duration when combined with dots that can be consumed or popped. That's a fun way to make Duration active.

I loved this video. Game theory is so much fun in general. I like to write D&D content and video games are sooo close its fun to see similar ideas in a different light!

Loved the video, make more like these vids where you ramble :)

This video actually helps A LOT bro. thank you.

Thanks homie, needed some chill

Randomly finding a 3LP Tongue led me to work on building some poison into my DoT generalist Warlock. I feel like you kinda glossed over Rotmind though - that damage gets added to Torment and can benefit from necres scaling. And yeah it'll hit hard if you have other sources of poison stacks because I read Poison Overload as giving general poison penetration, not just for ailment stacks, unless I'm horribly mistaken. With enough stacks, I'm pretty sure my Warlock can reach dealing more poison damage than necrotic overall. There is still a problem with the above idea right now which is kinda twofold. Obviously Rotmind can't be used with Plague Bearer (now that I think about it back when there was a bug/exploit that would let you do wield both together, holy shit that would have been strong). So to consistently reach 100 stacks you need to look at other sources, such as *Grand Taste of Venom, which is unfortunately broken!* Due to a typo it is rolling at like 40% the average potency it should. Now IDK how regularly you can give suggestions to devs, but since you're a great creator and you are clearly motivated to see ailments improve since you made this video, it would be awesome if you could check on/motivate EHG to fix GToV. It would allow Acolyte builds that don't get 200% poison chance from items alone to actually make the most of Poison Overload and thus shine like they should!

You missed the most broken part: ailment spread. That's literally one of the few exponential damage growths left in LE. Mortality's grasp absolutely decimates packs with mark of the rat, you don't even need poison overload. Just run though the echo dragging mobs along, and then one fissure will wipe them all. The only thing keeping it in check is that it does nothing single target. If there is any effect that can summon extra enemies during boss/shade fights, then poison will be completely broken again, even more so than before.

Absolutely loved the video, since I am a huge DOT and ailment enjoyer and I am not in love with the system they have in LE, atleast not that basically most "feel" the same. I think Poison should be more slow and duration heavy, cause it kinda fits thematically, but atm it feels like: Get as much chance as you get Hits as fast as you can Profit And ehhhhh that gets samey after many hours

died laughing noticing one of ur toons is names shamwow. kudos man.

The saddest one to me is damned being good but almost zero large scope synergy

One problem that wasn't discussed is why dot builds are less popular than crit builds. The first reason is that they have less clear speed. The second one is that crit builds have 1 extra "more" multiplier - armor shred giving 80...90% more damage. Even with enemy crit avoidance crit builds have better clear speed. In my humble opinion dot builds should still have less speed but more damage at bosses at max stacks. Now crit builds are just better.

RIP to all my Poison Enjoyers out there... F

Very useful. ty :)

So how does penetration with "ailment" work? Or any penetration for that matter? Does the penetration stack for each ailment applied or is it a fixed pen? I assume it's fixed. Does shred do anything for ailments?

Yea like these

fun for me too

If the problem was just with the understanding of what efficience meant, I feel like it would be better to just make it "more damage with bleed" for example. New players also dont now what penetration really means, even if it is a more well explained term in the game.

What does physical penetration with bleed does? All damage penetrated more Phys res OR Only bleed penetrated more Phys res ?

May i get the powerpoint to make a presentation to my M.I.T student :)

I thought every monster had resistance just because there is poision SHRED and poision PEN. I thought shred reduces resistance to 0, while penetration subtracts resistance (and can go below 0) So when poision shred reduceses resistance, thats only useful vs enemies that have resistance?

4:28 is incorrect. Aliment DO NOT SCALE. I repeat. DO NOT SCALE WITH THE HIT THAT INFLICTED THEM. This is repeat over and over in tooltip of the game. There only 5 things that scale aliment. Duration, Damage over time, Increased [Type] damage, Penetration, Shred(This is also includes skill reduce resist, like reduce fire resistance). Funny that you mention Enchanted weapon. This was actually my first build in the game. Flame Reaver ignite enchant weapon.