If you want to upgrade as quickly as possible in POE 2 to enter the endgame and successfully complete all game content, you will inevitably experience countless battles. In order to improve your combat efficiency and make your gaming experience better, how to output more damage in combat has become one of your POE 2 compulsory courses.
Generally speaking, the main way to output damage is to use the various skills of your role‘s class, or to create and use good builds based on skills and gear. But if you want to increase the damage value, on the one hand, you can directly upgrade your skills or builds, on the other hand, you can try to modify the damage type of the skill.
This is because some special damage types can output more damage than ordinary types. If you can convert them correctly, you can greatly improve your combat efficiency and get more POE 2 Currency by killing more enemies.
Based on this, we will introduce you to how to make this conversion.
How Damage Conversion Works?
The first thing you need to know is that most skills in Path of Exile 2 deal multiple types of damage at once, due to the inherent mechanics of the game, which means that most skills deal more than one type of damage. Generally speaking, these skills will convert a large portion of the physical damage to the elemental type while retaining some of the original physical damage.
For example, when you cast Freezing Salvo, a portion of the physical damage will be converted to cold damage, and the rest will remain physical damage. Therefore, this skill will not only benefit the most from cold and physical damage modifiers, but also interact with other elemental damage bonuses.
In addition, if you can exchange POE 2 Chaos Orbs for a ring that gives you increased fire damage, Freezing Salvo will even deal a small amount of fire damage, because it is not a pure elemental skill. However, this is a small benefit, because Freezing Salvo mainly deals with cold damage, and I mention this point just to give you more ideas for using this skill.
How To Perform Damage Conversion?
The current methods to do this include using passive skill nodes, unique items, and support gems. The specific operation principle is as follows:
- Unique items: Unique items can convert all elemental damage of skills into all three elemental damage types, but at the same time may reduce the effect of nearly pure elemental skills. Representative unique items are Painter’s Servant gloves.
- Support gems: Some support gems such as Chaos Infusion will reduce the amount of non-chaos damage for skills, thereby gaining additional chaos damage. But the final effect depends on the builds you use.
- Passive tree nodes: After unlocking some nodes, you can directly convert the damage type. For example, the capstone node Avatar of Fire can convert all your damage output into fire, but at the same time it will also sacrifice some overall damage.
To give you a better understanding, we will take Freezing Salvo as an example again for further explanation. The cold damage caused by this skill can be converted to pure fire damage through Avatar of Fire node in the passive skill tree. After that, Freezing Salvo will no longer cause any cold damage, nor can it apply freeze/chill effects to enemies. Instead, it will only cause fire damage and apply the ability to burn.
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Additionally, Widowhail Unique bow’s unique mechanic allows you to force most damage types to another damage type based on the worst damage on the equipped quiver, which can turn Freezing Salvo into a skill that primarily deals with fire damage, for example.
Things To Note When Doing Damage Conversion
Overall, damage conversion is a powerful combat support mechanic, but there are some builds that can function without it. So if you want to adopt this mechanic, first make sure it aligns with your play style and build strategy. Other considerations can be summarized as follows:
- Damage conversion allows skills to change their base damage type and skill effects, or interact with other mechanics, and even allows you to make some unique setups.
- Most skills rely on more than one damage type, so they can benefit from multiple types of damage bonuses.
- Pure elemental skills can only benefit from their exclusive elemental damage type unless damage conversion is performed.
Take Avatar of Fire as an example. This node prevents you from dealing with any type of non-fire damage, so other methods of increasing damage or converting damage will not work when this node is active. The only way you can increase damage at this point is to focus on increasing fire damage, so even though Freezing Salvo is a cold damage skill, it doesn’t make sense to add items or skill nodes to it that increase cold damage in this case.
The same is true for pure elemental skills. Take Flame Blast as an example, while it will not benefit from elemental damage types other than its default element, if you use a unique item to convert the fire damage of this skill to a different type, it will no longer receive the fire damage bonus despite being a fire damage skill.
It is worth noting that the process of performing damage conversion may require POE 2 orbs, so you can seize the opportunity to participate in the relevant giveaway event in IGGM Discord! This will likely bring you a lot of free orbs! Don’t miss it!
