Elemental Brands question.

[Jostabeere]

So there are the 3 brand spells. Fire-, Frost-, and Lightning Brands.

They do additional damage if I apply a DoT on a target to said target.
I'd like to know, what do they do exactly?
If I set an enemy on fire/shock him/freeze him, does the elemental brand proc once, and deals the listed damage, or does it proc per DoT-tick on the target?
And it if only procy once, what is the cooldown? Do I have to let the DoT wear off in order to apply it again and proc the Brands, or do they proc everytime the DoT is refreshed?

[ADEC Inc]

When an enemy is burning/frozen/shocked, the next attack you hit it with will trigger the appropriate brand and deal damage once. I believe the cooldown is one second per brand per target. The only condition for it to trigger again is that they are still burning/frozen/shocked when they next get hit.

[Jostabeere]

Originally posted by ADEC Inc:

When an enemy is burning/frozen/shocked, the next attack you hit it with will trigger the appropriate brand and deal damage once. I believe the cooldown is one second per brand per target. The only condition for it to trigger again is that they are still burning/frozen/shocked when they next get hit.

Oh, that's rather different to what I thought.

[gakm7]

Originally posted by Jostabeere:

Originally posted by ADEC Inc:

When an enemy is burning/frozen/shocked, the next attack you hit it with will trigger the appropriate brand and deal damage once. I believe the cooldown is one second per brand per target. The only condition for it to trigger again is that they are still burning/frozen/shocked when they next get hit.

Oh, that's rather different to what I thought.

ADEC is right, which is why a skill such as Shocking Orb (which everybody completely ignores) actually does much more damage than prismatic bolt + the three brands (which everybody ♥♥♥♥♥ their pants over)

[ADEC Inc]

I think it's because most players just want to finish the story once and stop playing. At least that's what the multiplayer situation has always suggested to me.

[gakm7]

Originally posted by ADEC Inc:

I think it's because most players just want to finish the story once and stop playing. At least that's what the multiplayer situation has always suggested to me.

That very well could be it... and in that case, yes, I'd just stick with Prismatic Bolts and the brands (as it's easiest and plenty effective) ... but for doing anything beyond a single playthrough, Shocking Orbs are much much better in terms of still having full mobility (after shooting out orbs for a second or less) while outputting insane damage. One can't do that with Prismatic Bolt, as you have to stay standing to output damage, and to me, Embermage is all about having mobility while allowing the orbs and thunder locus to deal most of the damage.

[HiFive]

Keep in mind that mobs get shocked, burned, frozen, on a random basis. So the extra damage is only to the monsters suffering from that random effect.