It says 100% of Piercing Damage converted to cold on Phantasmal Blades,
So if I am wearing this and then pick Frenetic Throw Transmuter which conversion will take effect the cold or vitality.
Or does speaker of the dead only work with untransmuted Phantasmal Blades?
I am assuming it works on both, afaik the item mods aren’t restrictive at all, if it was for a transmuter it would have said something like “100% of piercing damage converted to cold on Frentic Throw”.
As for the conversion… item modifiers are … modifiers. So following the order of events for conversion:
Base Skill > Skill Modifiers > Conversion on the Skill or Transmuter > Conversion on Equipment and Buffs > Equipment, Auras and Passives
Base skill = piercing
Item Modifier = piercing > Cold
Transmuter = no piercing left to convert.
You will still get the other benefits, but not the damage. No idea if this is how it works because item modifiers are a new thing and I haven’t tested it myself. Assuming both stack, you will have 50% cold and 50% vitality because the conversion values are truncated to accommodate for a 100% max conversion.
IRC transmuter work first, so Speaker conversion wont work at all.
Frenetic throw doesn’t convert all pierce to vitality, so the remaining pierce would be converted to cold. It’s still a small boost for frenetic throw builds focused on cold.
It’s a skill modifier and skill modifiers happen first. Only ? Is since the skill modifier appears on gear does it still count.
The modifier would be useless if the transmuter went 1st, guess no one tried it on beta.
Going by the official game guide it’s
Item Skill Modifier > Transmuter, so Speaker of the Dead shouldn’t be an exception to this in anyway