A question about Imbued skills

[BartiriX]

If a skill is imbued with an element, is Skill Damage still a component in the damage calculation?

It's clear to me that all damage becomes that of the imbued Element, but I'm unclear on whether this is made up of Skill Damage + Elemental Damage, or just one of the two.

I wasn't able to find a clear answer, so I'm hoping someone here knows.

[Torinux]

This is how Imbues from the "Ancestral Legacy" work:

- Shadow Imbue adds damage to the skills (this is the only Imbue that directly affects the damage of skills)

- Light Imbued can give you shield, apply debuffs on enemies(extra node) and deal more damage (to enemies under negative effects via a node).

- Lightning Imbue release an electric arc that deals elemental damage, can give you CDR (extra node).

- Ice Imbue gives you the chance to chill and freeze enemies (freezing requires an extra node).

- Fire Imbue applies Burn to enemies hit.

With the 1.0, a lot of legendary effects for imbues were added.

The imbue from the "Ancestral Legacy" works differently from the imbues from Exalted Breaches.

As you can see most of the Imbues require extra nodes to do more cool stuff. But with the new legendary effects, Imbues are really worth now, specially Light because it gives you a good amount of shield that will help you during the process of crafting good defenses on your gear.