What items you wear boost elemental/vitality damage?

[redgreen999]

So I am using Life Drain spell and was hitting those archer targets that display the damage after each hit. I do the same damage with or without an amulet that boosts vitality damage by 81%. I take it the amulets only boost the damage form the weapon and not any spells? What about rings, armor and artifacts them? Do they also just give their respective damage bonus to the weapon that is wielded? I think I use to know this but it has been awhile since I played a mage.

[Monzcarro Murcatto]

Go try it against real enemies. You'll see the difference. I believe these dummy targets or whatever might not be the best for testing vitality damage.

[Overeagerdragon]

Originally posted by Monzcarro Murcatto:

Go try it against real enemies. You'll see the difference. I believe these dummy targets or whatever might not be the best for testing vitality damage.

I deffo concur with this...various targets have different resistances...lifedrain does absolutely paltry damage on stuff like undead/constructs but try it against high vitality targets like the turtles around megara and the amount of damage it does goes off the scale (figure of speech-wise).

[redgreen999]

Thanks guys. I'm not sure what exact damage Life Drain was doing because as stated monster resists vary. But the eye test seems to indicate that any help from the %vit boost from the amulet was insignificant. For example, with or without amulet, it takes the same number of casts to finish off certain mobs.

About act 3 of Epic I took the points out of life drain and use a vitality staff that I couldn't wear until level 51 or 52. The amulet is more help with the staff, probably because my base damage now is close to 3x higher than what life drain was. Life drain was a big help leveling early though. For a good while it was my main attack with a 1.2 second regen from gear I wore.