Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Help/Tips/Tricks Fire dmg on weapon and as a skill :do they add up?

You can have extra fire, lightning, spiritual and poison damage as skill but also directly on your weapon. If you have lvl 5 fire damage skill and fire (5) on the weapon, does the weapon then do 2 times fire-damage.

I also understand that extra damage on a weapon can't be resisted while the skill always has a percentage of chance. Pretty whacko I have to say, especially with freeze and frost.

Thanks for any help.

Yes, they add up. There will be a percentage chance for the elemental damage on the weapon to be applied, and independently a percentage chance for damage from the skill to be applied. Frost is the only damage on a weapon which ignores the target's resistance.

Oh, OK!

Now I now what to do with my extra stack of skill-points!!

thx!

BTW, if you have any two of Frost on a weapon, Stun on a weapon or the passive Stun skill, it will sometimes cause monsters to hang in mid death animation, never falling or dropping loot. I think someone said sleeping would get them to finish dying, but never tried it myself.