Is heralds triggering other heralds intended and dmg as extra cold vs lightning ?
So I have been making a deadeye bow build and wanted to go multiple ele herald style. However one thing I noticed is that herald can trigger each other.
For example if you have a skill say ice shot that freezes. You can use this to trigger herald of ice, your heralds of ice if you give it lightning damage can then shock and then if it kills gives you herald of thunder, you can then make herald of thunder do cold damage and so will trigger herald of ice and repeat.
The other thing I'm unsure on is what's the best option for skill with this style of hybrid dmg setup. As you could run ice shot with dmg as extra lightning or lightning arrow with damage as extra cold. This way your main skill does both cold and lightning and so can possibly trigger both heralds and so make the herald loop thing happen more.
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It is not intended to be a screen wide self triggered aoe explosion, no. It will be gone soon 100%
Lightning Arrow has a higher base damage than Ice Shot, and the difference is nonlinear. As you progress, the damage gap between them increases.
I wonder if they will nerf it. Perhaps a good middle ground would be to only allow them to do one type of damage? This would still allow chaining stuff with unique items but not simply by using some flat damage. Unique item makes it at least have a small cost.
If you have eneough dmg increase on your tree and gear, getting a flat ele dmg roll on your weapons might be enough. in your case getting an added lightning dmg roll on rings/bow would probably be enough to start shocking mobs in maps. prolly not bosses tho. this would cause herald of ice to also shock cuz its just taking your attack dmg. You can look at the damage breakdown and specificially see how much lightning dmg is actually being done by your skills.
How do you give herald of ice lightning damage?
Auto bombers were in poe1 but they seem extremely strong in poe2 comparatively.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they just made the heralds from convert 100% phys to their element into convert 100% all to their element.
Although because of the range of heralds of thunder it’s less infinite prolif than heralds of ice with pork rind which is basically true infinite clear.
I have some flat lightning damage and Chance to Shock support on Herald of Ice, use the %of Lightning Damage as extra Cold notable and Polcirkeln unique ring and I feel like its working as intended. Super strong though.
Dual herald proccing always was a thing and you have to build towards it with stuff like Three Dragons and also it's only good for mapping so I don't really see it as being problematic.