Decay support

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So, I got some questions about decay..

Does it work like poison? Can multiple hits apply multiple stacks of decay?
What if I have multiple units are applying decay (like SRS/Skeleton/Zombie), then does it stack?

Does decay count as poison? i.e. can poison modifiers apply to it?

[DarkFaceGlow]

Decay is chaos damage, so it won’t do anything for poison. As far as stacking, I don’t THINK it does, but I could be wrong. Someone with more knowledge will chime in soon, I’m sure.

[Linkk]

Originally posted by MNI +|A.O|+:

So, I got some questions about decay..

Does it work like poison? Can multiple hits apply multiple stacks of decay?
What if I have multiple units are applying decay (like SRS/Skeleton/Zombie), then does it stack?

Does decay count as poison? i.e. can poison modifiers apply to it?

No, poison works like poison. Decay works like Decay.
It is important to take wording seriously in this game.

While both do chaos damage, Decay is a Debuff and Poison is an ailment:
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Buff#Debuff
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Ailment

You can read more about Decay here: https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Decay_Support

[Rafein]

Decay works like spell Chaos Dot's. only one application is applied.

i mean, it des like 900 damage a second, would be totally Op if it was per hit, especially with fast attacks/spells.

[Blickter]

Just to clarify further, poisons are applied on hits only, and are calculated off the amount of each hit that qualifies to apply poison. Decay is an "on-hit" effect which applies to enemies, it does not count as a hit itself. A hit on an enemy could apply a poison, and decay, at the same time, but the DoT from decay will not scale the poison.

Poison is the only ailment which can stack indefinitely (except maybe small shocks, which you wouldn't notice), you can have about a billion poisons on an enemy at a time. Decay however, is not an ailment, and cannot stack.