Poison and acid damage magical?

[lukasz]

Is poison and acid damage a magical type? If i upgrade my spirit will my damage go up from those sources?

[MdMarkX]

well it does afterall cunning just increases your physical, pierce, and duration dmg.
Willlpower increases the rest aoff the dmg types and duration dmg

[SkyLance]

It scales off the spirit stat, so it appears to be classed as magical.

You can test it yourself if you put a point (or use gear/item) in spirit, you'll see the damage increase on both acid and poison abilities.

[lukasz]

Ok then thanks for the answers. I'm using poison and acid build and increasing spirit may add some damage to my skills. Thanks again i will test this out.

[lukasz]

Hmm so spirit does increase your poison and acid damage. Except it doesn't increase the % of the damage. That sucks a bit.

[SkyLance]

Originally posted by lukasz:

Hmm so spirit does increase your poison and acid damage. Except it doesn't increase the % of the damage. That sucks a bit.

There's signs in the devotion constellation that can help with that.

There's some like Affliction, Manticore and Abomination that would probably work well for what you have in mind. They grant bonus damage% for poison/acid as you work towards the ability at the end of those signs. There's probably others too, but that is just an example.

Most of the acid/poison stuff is in the south east section of the devotion constellation if I rememeber correctly. There's probably a few up in the north east section too.

You could also try abilities granted by components such as Poison Bomb (Mutagenic Ichor), which I imagine would be very effective with that build.

You'll also find gear later on that will further boost your poison/acid%. For example: Alchemist Belt (edit: epic tier item), which increases your acid damage by 24%.

Goodluck.

[Kotli]

If you go to Character tab with the damage break down you see that acid and posion come under the magical catagery.

[lukasz]

SkyLance this is very helpfull. I will study my devotion passives more closely. I'm using nightblade character with passive skills that apply poison. Right now i have something around 180% increased poison damage. Im happy with my build. I hope i find some better poison gear later in the game. Thank you again for the answer.

[SkyLance]

Originally posted by lukasz:

SkyLance this is very helpfull. I will study my devotion passives more closely. I'm using nightblade character with passive skills that apply poison. Right now i have something around 180% increased poison damage. Im happy with my build. I hope i find some better poison gear later in the game. Thank you again for the answer.

You're welcome, may the cruel and fickle gods of RNG see fit to grant you some poison/acid gear.

Best of luck in your endeavours.

[lukasz]