Righteous Fire and support gems are making my brain hurt. Help Please!

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Vipermagi escribió:

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1453R escribió:

APPARENTLY (even though this makes no godsdamned sense) Controlled Destruction doesn't work because Righteous Fire doesn't deal damage - it grants you a buff that just-so-happens to deal AoE Fire (but not spell) damage to nearby enemies. Yeah. Sometimes Path of Exile makes my brain bleed.

Righteous Fire does deal Damage.
Damage over Time is never Spell Damage.

It's not exactly rocket science. *shrug*

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The tooltip lists Hit Damage. Righteous Fire does not Hit. The tooltip for RF does not list its Damage over Time anywhere; you need to manually calculate it.

Considering that Contagion, Essence Drain, Scorching Ray, and Vortex - i.e. every other DoT spell in the game, as I recall at the moment - all allow spell damage modifiers to work on their DoT effects because they're spells and they're dealing damage, I'm hoping I can find forgiveness for not being immediately aware that Damage over Time was its own bucket. Especially when it doesn't act like its own bucket in any other case and otherwise scales normally with things such as elemental/physical scalars or anything else you'd expect to apply to it depending on its delivery source.

yeah okay, all these things make a specific note of that behavior, but come on. EVERY damage-over-time spell in the game except Righteous Fire has that note. Is it really hard to wonder why RF doesn't, other than being old?