Question about Breath of the Dying

Hi D2 community !
Question about Breath of the Dying!

will Bramble up a Poison Nova dmg from Breath of the Dying, if, for example, we give Frenzy from act 5:

1. Dual Breath of the Dying (on PB) , 50% Chance To Cast Level 20 Poison Nova When You Kill An Enemy * 2 = 100% Chance To Cast on Phase Blade
2. Bramble (for UP dmg from Poison Nova) => this is actually the question of whether it will increase the damage <=
3. Arreat's Face or Cure I play non ladderer so Arreat's Face or Guillaume's Face

I have 2 Zod runes lying around and a Bramble, I want to try to give my measure that goes with poison necro.
Has anyone tried to make such a merc? I'm going to test, I didn't find any information on the Internet, maybe someone knows, maybe there is something to see about this?

For your first point that's not how it works. The 50% work for each weapon individual and are not added together. So with two times Breath of the Dying you get 50% chance to cast psn Nova (with one you would have an effective chance of only 25%).

edit: Forget that. I was thinking about chance to cast on attack or strike but botd has chance to cast when you kill an enemy. Not sure how that works.
edit2: Seems it works the same. So my first guess was correct. Thanks @ShadowHeart for the clarification.

atari wrote: 2 years ago

For your first point that's not how it works. The 50% work for each weapon individual and are not added together. So with two times Breath of the Dying you get 50% chance to cast psn Nova (with one you would have an effective chance of only 25%).

why does it work with Mosaic and does not work with BoTD ? main is no stack or no stack chance to proc Poison Nova, main is buffup from Bramble Poison Nova or not

different mechanics, I understand, not 100, will Bramble increase damage from Poison Nova on merc or not?

ShadowHeart wrote: 2 years ago

Yes, Bramble will increase the damage.

Keep in mind that the base damage of the Poison Novas from Breath of the Dying will be fairly low because it will be unsynergized. The CtC effect will cast it as if a Necromancer had level 20 Poison Nova but 0 points in Poison Dagger and Poison Explosion. It's only 400-something over 2 seconds, so 200-something damage per second. Bramble would increase this by up to 50%, but that's still only up to 600-something damage over 2 seconds.

If a Necromancer wielded Breath of the Dying, and had invested in Poison Dagger and Poison Explosion, the Poison Novas from Breath of the Dying would do a lot more damage because then it would be synergized by those skills.

thank you,
for some reason I thought about the necro with a Crossbow and looked at the table
ias 50 15
ias 70 14
ias 95 13
ias 138 12
ias 215 11

ShadowHeart wrote: 2 years ago

atari wrote: 2 years ago

Forget that. I was thinking about chance to cast on attack or strike but botd has chance to cast when you kill an enemy. Not sure how that works.

It works similarly, but there are some quirks.

According to Amazon Basin's article on When You Kill An Enemy :

...when an enemy is killed by the weapon damage, weapon or skill poison damage, or Open Wounds of the equipping player character, mercenary or Iron Golem, without costing any mana.

From the link: "Chance to Cast When You Kill an Enemy gives a percentage chance to use a skill when an enemy is killed by the weapon damage, weapon or skill poison damage, or Open Wounds of the equipping player character". Does this only apply to poison damage done by weapons with poison damage on it, or will my poisonmancer with his own Poison Nova trigger the Chance? Would be awesome to have a chain reaction of posion Nova . Another question: What affects the Poison Nova dmg on the weapon if i am a skilled out poisonmancer with +skill gear?