Not so short question: damge conversion options and results

[tqFan]

This is 100% sure? Shit… I was hoping to have red and violet Chainlightnings and Whirlpools… ah, well…

yes

Well, there are items which change Wind Devils partly to Vitality Devils…pure vitality is violett, afaik, mixed with blue from cold or white-ish from Lightning, you wouldn’t see much, I say… but I will test that. Somewhen.

No red Wind Devils but you can have red Blade Spirits. Not only I tested it in the past in-game but now I can quickly datamine this:

$ find . -iname "*winddevil*fx*"
./mods/gdx1/database/records/skills/playerclass06/pets/modifier_acidwinddevil_fxswap.dbr
./mods/gdx2/database/records/skills/playerclass06/pets/modifier_aetherwinddevil_fxswap.dbr

a) the DoT Damage does also change/is converted (known)
b) the resists stay as they are, no matter the conversion!? In this case it makes sense (OFF-case), but with Wind Devils it would not. If you use a conduit to change Wind Devil to Acid Devil, the RR stays Elemental? How did this get accepted!? And you are saying, this applies to each and all Skills with RR-effects, these stick with the damage type that they have before conversion. And there was no outrage because of this!?
c) but the CC-Effect ‘frozen’ stays unaltered, as I understand (as it is in itself not a ‘cold-damage-skill’ but a CC-skill)? And this goes with all such skills?

a) yes, on the first node of skills. But on the second and third nodes - damage and dots are not always converted. See the the link I posted in my first post to understand it.

b) simply if RR is needed, it’s added, for example this Acid WD conduit has also Acid RR added to Wind Devil. How did this get accepted? I guess it’s your fault that you weren’t there at the time to oppose this. Shame on you! You are years too late, should have come when Titan Quest was being developed which Grim Dawn inherits from

Mechanics Betrayals Btw here are more reasons to rage for you (search forum if you don’t understand what some of them mean) and this is only some part of weird things in Grim Dawn mechanics. I didn’t even touch pets or melee that I know little of. But the game is balanced around these, there are compensations for imperfect mechanics (sometimes not satisfactory to some players)

c) yes