Hammerdin and Concentration aura swap

I have a hammer/foh hybrid paladin. When I am doing

Baal waves, I spin up some hammers with

Concentration and when the wave spawns I switch to

Redemption and finish it up with FOH.

The question is: when I switch to

Redemption do those hammers that are still spinning do the damage with a bonus from

Concentration or does the bonus go away when I switch to

Redemption? Does it work the other way around, ie when I use hammers with

Redemption and then switch to

Concentration will they do more damage?

I don't know for sure but my guess is the damage bonus goes away when you switch off your offensive aura.

From
https://maxroll.gg/d2/guides/blessed-hammer-paladin \ Summary

Whenever casting

Blessed Hammer make sure

Concentration is on to deal maximum damage.

Seems that

Concentration bonus is "snapshotted" on cast.

Other link (that I lost...), said that only your own

Concentration affects

Blessed Hammer damage

Fredkid is correct. Skill levels, damage, projectile numbers, etc are all determined at time of casting. That's why if you cast a persistent spell (

Raise Skeleton,

Battle Orders, etc) after grabbing a skill shrine you don't immediately lose a chunk of life or a

Skeleton when the shrine wears off.
Same with your hammers, the damage is calculated at time of casting, which in your scenario is with your

Concentration aura.

Edit: didn't realize this was a

Zombie thread

Knappogue wrote: 6 months ago

Fredkid is correct. Skill levels, damage, projectile numbers, etc are all determined at time of casting. That's why if you cast a persistent spell (

Raise Skeleton,

Battle Orders, etc) after grabbing a skill shrine you don't immediately lose a chunk of life or a

Skeleton when the shrine wears off.
Same with your hammers, the damage is calculated at time of casting, which in your scenario is with your

Concentration aura.

Edit: didn't realize this was a

Zombie thread

Aaaaactually, while that is largely an accurate rule of thumb, the

Skeleton/summon bit isn't.

If you summon say 10 skeletons and then your skill level drops to where you could only summon 9, you won't keep 10 skeletons. One of them will pop immediately and bring you down to 9.

Schnorki wrote: 6 months ago

Knappogue wrote: 6 months ago

Fredkid is correct. Skill levels, damage, projectile numbers, etc are all determined at time of casting. That's why if you cast a persistent spell (

Raise Skeleton,

Battle Orders, etc) after grabbing a skill shrine you don't immediately lose a chunk of life or a

Skeleton when the shrine wears off.
Same with your hammers, the damage is calculated at time of casting, which in your scenario is with your

Concentration aura.

Edit: didn't realize this was a

Zombie thread

Aaaaactually, while that is largely an accurate rule of thumb, the

Skeleton/summon bit isn't.

If you summon say 10 skeletons and then your skill level drops to where you could only summon 9, you won't keep 10 skeletons. One of them will pop immediately and bring you down to 9.

Damnit! I knew that too! My original draft had

Energy Shield instead of

Raise Skeleton, but changed it at the end and didn't write that caveat. Good catch!

Little note: that 9 skeletons that remain after the skill level drop, will retains their status from the moment they were cast

fredkid wrote: 6 months ago

Little note: that 9 skeletons that remain after the skill level drop, will retains their status from the moment they were cast

Yes, this also works for anything else, time-related stuff will be buffed for the duration (for example SS forms, BoS, BO, dmg absorbs [Frozen Armor, Blade Shield, Bone Armor, Cyclone Armor...], HS, ES, etc.) and for unlimited ones (like summons) buff will last until they are killed/resummoned.
So if you think your skill shrine will expire soon just re-buff/re-summon everything even tho summons will drop down to their original numbers (like for Skeletons) they will still retain their buffed capabilities as if you still have that +2.