Blueflame Bracers convertion Mechanics
Hi Guys,
Completely new poe player here. Can anyone help me understanding blueflame bracers? As I understood, it converts all (base) fire damage to cold damage, so to apply damage increase buffs one should go for +cold damage instead of +fire damage.
But there are 2 very specific mechanics I am still not understanding and questioning.
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Climate Change (passive Skill) "Gain 25% of cold damage as extra fire damage against frozen enemies" If i have a frozen enemy. Does it add 25% fire damage to my cold spells, and convert that added fire damage back to cold damage again? If so, does this added increased 25% cold damage benefit from cold damage buffs again?
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Eye of Winter "Gains 50% of damage as the corresponding type when passing over a ground surface" If i place a flame wall and shoot eye of winter through it, will I gain +50% of damage as cold damage instead, or will it stay at +50% damage as fire damage? Do these +50% also benefit from damage buffs? (E g. +10% Elemental damage fron passive skill tree)
Comments
"Convert" and "add as extra" are totally separate.
So if you cast a fire spell that's converted to cold, that converts the (base + flat) damage that the spell is going to do, to cold damage. The damage "forgets" that it was ever fire damage, it's cold damage now.
Then the "as extra" effects look at the damage, so if you had "gain 50% of fire damage as extra chaos damage", that's not going to do anything because your damage forgot that it used to be fire damage. If you have "gain 50% of cold damage as extra fire damage", your spell will gain that amount of fire damage based on ita cold damage after conversion, because your conversion step is finished.
Then the game does the increased and more multipliers, so if you had that 50% extra fire damage, it would benefit from fire damage multipliers.