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Damage Types in Hunting POE Credits Pt.2

Keywords that are based on damage types are dynamic based on the damage types that a hit consists of. For example, supporting Incinerate with Added Chaos Damage Support Chaos Damage Support effectively causes all hits dealt by that skill to have the Chaos damage keyword. Currently there are 5 types of damage you can use in hunting for POE Credits.

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Damage Types for POE Credits

A hit can be composed of several types of damage, but each type of damage has modifiers applied to it separately from other types in the same hit. Damage over time effects always consist of exactly one damage type. All damage must have exactly one type; there is no such thing as “typeless” or “multi-typed” damage.

  • Physical Damage – Physical damage is usually dealt by attacks but can also come from some spells, like Glacial Cascade, Ethereal Knives, Blade Vortex, Bladefall and Shockwave Totem. Most sources of life leech and mana leech only apply to physical attack damage when determining how much life or mana is gained. Many passive attack skills only increase physical damage, especially those which apply to a specific weapon type.

This damage type is usually known as the basic attack damage.

Elemental Damage for hunting POE Currency

Here are some of the unique attacks you can use in hunting

Keywords that are based on damage types are dynamic based on the damage types that a hit consists of. For example, supporting Incinerate with Added Chaos Damage Support Chaos Damage Support effectively causes all hits dealt by that skill to have the Chaos damage keyword. Currently there are 5 types of damage you can use in hunting for POE Credits.

Damage Types for POE Credits

A hit can be composed of several types of damage, but each type of damage has modifiers applied to it separately from other types in the same hit. Damage over time effects always consist of exactly one damage type. All damage must have exactly one type; there is no such thing as “typeless” or “multi-typed” damage.

  • Physical Damage – Physical damage is usually dealt by attacks but can also come from some spells, like Glacial Cascade, Ethereal Knives, Blade Vortex, Bladefall and Shockwave Totem. Most sources of life leech and mana leech only apply to physical attack damage when determining how much life or mana is gained. Many passive attack skills only increase physical damage, especially those which apply to a specific weapon type.

This damage type is usually known as the basic attack damage.

Elemental Damage for hunting POE Currency

Here are some of the unique attacks you can use in hunting POE Currency

  • Fire Damage – Dealing a critical strike with fire damage inflicts the ignite status ailment. Fire damage has its own unique term for damage over time called burning damage that applies exclusively to fire damage over time effects.
  • Cold Damage – Hitting an enemy with cold damage can inflict the chill status ailment, while dealing a critical strike with cold damage can inflict the freeze status ailment.
  • Lightning Damage – Dealing a critical strike with lightning damage can inflict the shock status ailment. Lightning damage has a greater damage range than other damage types—it tends to deal 10-190% of the average damage, instead of 80-120% as with other damage types.
  • Chaos Damage – Chaos damage ignores energy shield, reducing life directly. Notably, while the poison status ailment is associated with chaos damage it is not inflicted when dealing a critical strike with chaos damage.
  • Fire Damage – Dealing a critical strike with fire damage inflicts the ignite status ailment. Fire damage has its own unique term for damage over time called burning damage that applies exclusively to fire damage over time effects.
  • Cold Damage – Hitting an enemy with cold damage can inflict the chill status ailment, while dealing a critical strike with cold damage can inflict the freeze status ailment.
  • Lightning Damage – Dealing a critical strike with lightning damage can inflict the shock status ailment. Lightning damage has a greater damage range than other damage types—it tends to deal 10-190% of the average damage, instead of 80-120% as with other damage types.
  • Chaos Damage – Chaos damage ignores energy shield, reducing life directly. Notably, while the poison status ailment is associated with chaos damage it is not inflicted when dealing a critical strike with chaos damage.