Lightning facet jewel "socketed" items

Hi all,

If you are a sorceress and you have a shield socketed with lightning facet, does the -5% lightning resistance apply to your lightning spells, when you cast it on monsters?|||Yes; the -5% resist and +5% damage both apply.

The +5% damage, however, adds to your Lightning Mastery rather than multiplying it (so if you have Level 20 Lightning Mastery and a +5% damage facet, your total damage will be increased by 283% rather than 278%). As a result, a character loaded with +3% damage facets will be pretty much the same as one decked out in +5s, while a character with a bunch of -5% resist facets will be noticeably more effective than one using -3s, if that makes any sense.|||I know what you mean. So that +5% lightning skill is not that effective. In comparison with a Spirit monarch (+2 to all skills), a 4-socketed shield (also monarch) would be less effective. Am I right?|||Your sorc will deal more damage with a 4 socket shield with facets because of the -res bonus, but apart from +2 to skills, Spirit also adds up to 35%fcr, res, 22 vit, around 100 mana and 55% FHR, that evens it out IMO. BTW, lightning facets are pretty expensive.|||I was thinking:

+2 skills means +2 lightning, +2 chain lightning, +2 lightning mastery, +2 nova, +2 charged bolt. That's already 16x3+12x2 = +72% lightning damage.

But a 4-socket perfect lightning facet would be +20%lightning damage, -20% lightning resist.|||I'd say go with + skills items rather than socketed items with facets. Unless you have something crazy hax like JMOD.|||As said a few times, the point of using lightning facets on a sorc is its -res. It will have a great impact. Sprit's +2 skills won't even that out, but its other bonuses will, except you already have enough fcr, mana, fhr and resists. +dmg from them is next to irrelevant because it's added to the already huge mastery bonus, so it won't make much of a difference.

It's different with javazons. They have no lightning mastery, so the +dmg bonus is rather useful as well, but still not as much as -res because enemies usually have a bit res and e.g. reducing 50 res to 30 will lead to an increase factor of 70/50=1.4.|||Quote:








I was thinking:

+2 skills means +2 lightning, +2 chain lightning, +2 lightning mastery, +2 nova, +2 charged bolt. That's already 16x3+12x2 = +72% lightning damage.

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+skills only add dmg to skills you are going to swap to and actually use, or add dmg to Mastery or pseudo-synergies... but they DON'T add dmg thru your synergies.

So let's say you add 20 points into Chain Lightning, 1 pt into every synergy you can see listed for it, and 1 pt into Lightning Mastery. And let's say you have +20 to all skills from your gear/inv/BO/Shrine/etc. You cast a Chain Lightning, and it is indeed lvl40, and your +skills will add 20 lvls to your Mastery. But bonuses from all of your CL synergies will be LEVEL 1. You will in fact gain just a pittance from them.

Only hard points spent, count towards synergy of a skill.|||Oh really?! I didn't know that.