What can I add to weapons besides poison/fire?

[Cliche gamer handle]

Sorry if this is a stupid question. I've spent about an hour looking online but maybe I'm not asking google the right questions.
I know I can combine a weapon with an ooze barrel to make it poisoned, and/or a fire source and oil barrel to give the weapon fire damage.
Are there other simple ways to add a quick buff to weapons?
Thanks.

[BOT]

you could craft weapon + poison flask aswell

but dont forget.. fire buff works only with mod or giftbag .. it is not in the vanilla game includet.

you can enhance the items with iternal artefacts but that is later in the game or with runes. but their is no other way then runes/ iternal artefact/ fire/ poison.

the only other think would be getting a mod or giftbag that lvls up your item to your current lvl. that would not give or add bonuses just lvl up the item and the dmg.. ohh well if the item gives you 1 strenght it could give you +2 or +3 depending on the lvl you have.

i personaly dont use it but the giftback version is that their are 4 npcs in every act one of them. wich sell you items and you have to purchase them to lvl up a sertain item. those items are a bit pricy. the mod version does that without the npc's and purchasing.

[Arroba]

ice and electry .

[Cliche gamer handle]

Originally posted by Arroba:

ice and electry .

Are there barrels to add those buffs? Maybe my question should have been more specific: "How do I add more buffs..?" besides runes... I figured by referencing barrels it might have given people a clue as to my noob-ness

[Chaoslink]

Technically, you can only do poison and air damage. Fire should only work if you’re using the gift bag crafting mod, if I recall correctly. Air damage is very limited though as it requires a finite resource only available in the third act.

However, there are other ways to add element damage to your attacks, some being dependent on your weapon choice. Rangers with bows or crossbows do it best as they have the Elemental Arrowheads spell which lets you pick up an element to add it’s damage to your attacks as well as the talent Elemental Ranger that adds 20% of your base damage as element damage if your target is standing on an element surface. All characters can use the Venom Coating spell or it’s aura version to add poison damage to their attacks, this spell being crafted via Geo and Scoundrel skillbooks. There’s a later game spell called Firebrand that adds fire damage to all allied attacks in range is the caster as well as the spell Absorb Poison which picks up poison in your vicinity to add that to your attacks. Melee characters can craft Sparking Swings which throws fire damage at enemies nearby the one you attack in melee as well.

Not all of these do the same amount of damage though, but most stack. Archer builds can actually get their magic damage output to be higher than their base physical damage without giving up that physical damage, making them the strongest true hybrid damage attacker in the game.

[Cliche gamer handle]

Thanks for the detailed reply!

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by Cliche gamer handle:

Thanks for the detailed reply!

Yeah, if you're looking for full build details, most of which are already posted in there, search for Elemental Ranger on the forum here and you'll eventually find one of dozens of times I've detailed the build. Its a powerful hybrid damage build that absolutely deletes HP. Its a fun archer build that still basically is just a standard archer.

[MeniliteZ]

Originally posted by BOT:

you could craft weapon + poison flask aswell

How long does this last?

And what weapon types does it work on?

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by MeniliteZ:

Originally posted by BOT:

you could craft weapon + poison flask aswell

How long does this last?

And what weapon types does it work on?

Lasts forever and works on basically all weapons. Wands might be the only exception. Though it might be poison bottles, not the throwable flasks.

[MeniliteZ]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

Originally posted by MeniliteZ:

How long does this last?

And what weapon types does it work on?

Lasts forever and works on basically all weapons. Wands might be the only exception. Though it might be poison bottles, not the throwable flasks.

Thanks. I don't think I've seen bottles rather than throwable flasks, though. I'll keep an eye out!

[Chaoslink]

You just use potion bottles. Though crafting straight from a poison barrel does the same thing and the barrel is infinite use.

[MeniliteZ]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

You just use potion bottles. Though crafting straight from a poison barrel does the same thing and the barrel is infinite use.

Ooh, that kind of bottle. I have seen those, oops!

Thanks!