Iskandra's Elemental Exchange and Elemental Balance

[Alec White]

Does Elemental Balance affect pets and allies too? or does it only affect the player?

[Unicarn]

I'm pretty sure it works for allies/pets as well. It's a modifier for Iskandra's Elemental Exchange, which benefits pets, and the description doesn't say it doesn't work with allies/pets.

The easiest way to test this would be to order your pets to fight a dummy and see what crits they get before & after.

[Alec White]

I see more crit damage, but the base damage remains the same, maybe is because I thought the +126% burn/frost/elec damage would increase the total damage. So I'm not sure if the dumies are displaying the damage correctly, or I don't understand how the added elemental damage works.

[Ottomic]

There's a mutator to confer +elem to pets, not sure allies. Dunno if it affects Balance though. Try it on the dummies with grim damage on.

[Alec White]

It seems that Elemental Balance doesn't affect pets, but I'm still a noob with this and don't know if I read the information correctly.

https://i.imgur.com/sTpMr9W.png

First without any points on Elemental Balance, and after with 9 points on EB.

[Unicarn]

Originally posted by Alec White:

I see more crit damage, but the base damage remains the same, maybe is because I thought the +126% burn/frost/elec damage would increase the total damage. So I'm not sure if the dumies are displaying the damage correctly, or I don't understand how the added elemental damage works.

If you see more crit damage, then it should be working.

Did you give your pets burn/frostburn/electrocute damage?

Edit: I just tested it and both Iskandra's Elemental Exchange modifiers worked for my Blight Fiend.

Edit 2: I was actually planning on building a pet build around Iskandra's Elemental Exchange and having lots of minions (mainly skeletons) so let's see if it'll be successful

[Alec White]

I only saw more crit and the base IEE damange conversion once I put points on Manifestaiton, I haven't notice any increase in overall damage with Elemental Balance.

And just to be sure, in theory IEE converts physical damage(in this case 45% of pet physical damage) into elemental damage (which would be 15% elec/burn/frost), with Elemental Balance shouldn't it increase the 15% elec/burn/frost damage?

This is my first time playing, and I'm using a spellbinder with pets as almost exclusive source of damage, and I have finally gotten enough points to reach Elemental Balance.

[Unicarn]

Originally posted by Alec White:

I only saw more crit and the base IEE damange conversion once I put points on Manifestaiton, I haven't notice any increase in overall damage with Elemental Balance.

And just to be sure, in theory IEE converts physical damage(in this case 45% of pet physical damage) into elemental damage (which would be 15% elec/burn/frost), with Elemental Balance shouldn't it increase the 15% elec/burn/frost damage?

This is my first time playing, and I'm using a spellbinder with pets as almost exclusive source of damage, and I have finally gotten enough points to reach Elemental Balance.

No, that's not how it works.

45% physical damage to elemental damage works like this:
45% of your physical damage is converted to elemental damage (fire/cold/lightning)
45% of your internal trauma damage (the DoT version of physical) is converted to burn/frostburn/electrocute (the DoT versions of fire/cold/lightning)

It works the same for pets.

[Alec White]

I still don't see an increase in damage with the indicators. Maybe that damage is not displayed?

[Alec White]

After a bit more testing, I think that Elemental Balance only gives pets the +% crit damage and not the extra +% elemental damage.