1. #1

    Crusader passive skill: Holy Cause

    How does this skill work?

    •Damage bonus now applies to all weapons, not just Holy weapons

    The amount of HOLY damage dealt by your weapon is increased by 10%. Whenever you deal HOLY damage, you heal 1% of your total life.

    Since I was looking to improve my current Lightning Hammerdin built, I visited: http://www.diablofans.com/forums/dia...ant-to-destroy

    This guy says that Holy Cause is a must and seems to be celebrated for this built.

    So what am I missing here? To me this passive clearly states that it is about HOLY damage.

    Let's say that I have 40% elemental holy damage and I choose this passive, I'd have 50% right? That is what I am reading. So why would someone who specialises in LIGHTNING, get this specific passive?

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    I am getting ahead of myself but let's say that this passive now applies to whatever elemental skill your weapon of choice has... (which in my case is LIGHTNING) the following sentence of that skill: "Whenever you deal HOLY damage, you heal 1% of your total life." Does that apply to LIGHTNING damage?

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    edit:
    If this 10% is applied to the 1250-1600 lightningdamage - it seems to me apart from the healingbonus, it is pretty worthless right vs other passives out there.
    Last edited by Vaelorian; 2014-06-02 at 08:47 AM.

  2. #2
    You'd probably do better looking at the tooltip in-game, which reads:

    "The amount of damage dealt by your weapon is increased by 10%. Whenever you deal Holy damage, you heal for 1% of your total life."

    The important part (at least as far as that build you linked is concerned) is in BOLD. Holy Cause is a flat-out 10% damage increase, period. How many passives can do that?

  3. #3
    Quote Originally Posted by Aliessil View Post
    You'd probably do better looking at the tooltip in-game, which reads:

    "The amount of damage dealt by your weapon is increased by 10%. Whenever you deal Holy damage, you heal for 1% of your total life."

    The important part (at least as far as that build you linked is concerned) is in BOLD. Holy Cause is a flat-out 10% damage increase, period. How many passives can do that?
    10% added to your weapon damage not a flat 10% damage increase.

    It'll add around 40-60k DPS depending on your weapon.
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  4. #4
    Quote Originally Posted by zito View Post
    10% added to your weapon damage not a flat 10% damage increase.

    It'll add around 40-60k DPS depending on your weapon.
    Really? You sure about that?

    I swap out Holy Cause and select Long Arm of the Law instead. My character sheet damage shows as 837,911.
    I swap Holy Cause back in and my character sheet damage becomes 921,702.

    837,911 x 110% = 921,702

    Sure looks like a flat 10% damage increase. I've always understood it that damage modifiers (strength, crit chance, crit damage, etc) all get applied to your weapon damage, making the weapon the base point.

  5. #5
    Quote Originally Posted by zito View Post
    10% added to your weapon damage not a flat 10% damage increase.

    It'll add around 40-60k DPS depending on your weapon.
    +10% weapon damage should be a straight +10% dps increase, because it's not generic bonus damage but applied independently of it. Unless the tooltip is lying, which it doesn't seem to be doing.
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  6. #6
    As of 2.0.5, Holy Cause simply adds a 10% damage multiplier which can be seen on the character screen (second entry from the top). It stacks additively with other generic +damage% bonuses; for example, if you have it and use Akarat's Champion (+35% damage), they add together to +45%.

  7. #7
    Quote Originally Posted by Shaiandra View Post
    As of 2.0.5, Holy Cause simply adds a 10% damage multiplier which can be seen on the character screen (second entry from the top). It stacks additively with other generic +damage% bonuses; for example, if you have it and use Akarat's Champion (+35% damage), they add together to +45%.
    Well thanks for that explanation. Would really appriciate it if Blizzard would update those tooltips on their sites or even have numbers mentioned ingame.

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