The error on Profile Toughness display is mostly that set bonuses aren’t included, and my DH has 2 items of 4 different sets equipped, plus a Ring of Royal Grandeur.)Īll that said, here follows the newly-updated Elemental Damage article from, which should function as reference and a sort of Guide to Diablo 3 Elemental Damage. Playing my DH last night on EU, I had 13.9m Toughness in-game while my profile showed 4.7m toughness, leading people in the game to wonder why I wasn’t dying as I stood blasting away without much bothering to avoid the Elite attacks.

(BTW, Sheet Toughness is as dumb or dumber. (Nor does +damage% from specific skills.) This is the infamous Paper DPS problem that we’ve been arguing about for months, and that Blizzard keeps insisting they’re not concerned about. It’s tricky to achieve that you’ll need to wear 4 amulets and 3 bracers at once, while playing a half-Monk half-Wizard to equip all the specialized gear… but a true min/maxer won’t let minor details like those get in the way!Īlso keep in mind that the +elemental damage% boosts do *not* show up on your Character pane. I’ve done the calculations and it’s possible to add up to +290% damage to Lightning Skills, on top of all your boosted damage from crit and mainstat and the like. However, Lightning actually has the most items that boost it, and some classes have skills and builds to take advantage of it.

The best element to boost? Fire is what most players prefer now, due to a combination of which legendaries grant fire damage and which skill runes output it. There are a lot of items that grant damage bonuses to the seven elemental damage types that can be boosted with +damage% affixes - Physical, Arcane, Fire, Cold, Poison, Holy, and Lightning - and every one of them is now listed and sorted by damage type on the Elemental Damage wiki page.

While the traditional trifecta affixes remain essential for a quality DPS - with Attack Speed much reduced in value for many builds - smarter players are supplementing that with items that add +damage% to skills of _ element, and making sure their skills and rune effects match that elemental damage type. Elemental Damage in Diablo 3 and Reaper of Souls is a huge factor in character performance and build selection.

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