Chaos/Poison monk build.
I have intentionally avoided looking at other builds, but I've hit a wall in my knowledge so here's my questions.
How much, if at all, does "spell damage" affect chaos DoTs, curses, and Poison DoTs respectively?
Does "Spell Critical Chance" or "Spell Critical Damage bonus" meaningfully affect DoTs or curses?
Do the above terms affect "Detonations" as specified by Hex Blast?
Do the spells/curses that Hand of Chayula activate on my hot bar count as "Triggered Spells?"
That's about all I can think of at the moment. Thank you for your time.
Comments
Spell damage does not affect natural dots like contagion. It does affect essence drain though. Not sure about poison.
Crit does not apply to dots.
The above applies to hexblast.
Not sure about the trigger. If the spell has the tag “trigger”, then it probably is.
POE2 changed up how Afflictions (Bleed, Poison, Ignite) are applied. A big thing was the addition of the tag Magnitude (POP! POP!)
So crit, and spell damage, curses, and vulnerabilities and all that only increases the size of the base hit. The Affliction then applies based on the size of that HIT. So more crit, is bigger hits, which converts to bigger Afflictions.
HIT * Magnitude % = Affliction Damage
Detonations? Not sure. It will say 'Detonator' on the spell description.
Hand of Chayula looks like it APPLIES, but doesn't TRIGGER.