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(2022) Death Wish Damage - "Cannot Be Reflected"

This thread was added on February 10, 2022, with posts from Mark_GGG.

Original Post

Tried running an ele reflect map with death wish, and my death wish explosions were consistently being reflected, despite its description "cannot be reflected." Any idea what could be causing this?

BabaYadaPoe

Deals 444 to 666 Fire Damage

Explosion deals base Fire Damage equal to 19% of the Minion's maximum Life

Just speculating: the base damage is different from the explosion damage. i.e. the base damage can be reflected, explosion damage don't.

This is correct. From the skill description:

When you stop channelling, each affected minion explodes, and this skill deals spell damage around them.

These are two separate things - the minion explosion, and the skill's spell damage.

The explosion of the minion is not affected by modifiers to spell damage, and cannot be reflected.

This part is only referring to the explosion, not the spell damage.

BabaYadaPoe

Deals 444 to 666 Fire Damage

Explosion deals base Fire Damage equal to 19% of the Minion's maximum Life

Just speculating: the base damage is different from the explosion damage. i.e. the base damage can be reflected, explosion damage don't.

This is correct. From the skill description:

When you stop channelling, each affected minion explodes, and this skill deals spell damage around them.

These are two separate things - the minion explosion, and the skill's spell damage.

The explosion of the minion is not affected by modifiers to spell damage, and cannot be reflected.

This part is only referring to the explosion, not the spell damage.

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Do the minion's Not only life but also damage affect explosion damage?

The corpse is not dealing the damage, so it's damage modifiers don't have any effect.

Aggravating-Ad-5586

Do the minion's Not only life but also damage affect explosion damage?

The corpse is not dealing the damage, so it's damage modifiers don't have any effect.