lore i sort of did it!

[ckdamascus]

It does. You get linear growth with hell breath. Not sure on how any special immunity to fire helps out. It "might" sneak through since the true base damage is physical. Unless the game is clever enough to break it down separately when calculating total damage.

[edit] Game is clever enough to break it down separately when calculating total damage.

No, but the bosses tend to take quite a bit of damage anyway. 100% crits really changes everything and it is not clear to me if 30% less resistance (too bad there are no negative resists) and NO chance to crit PLUS losing one round of casting is better than 150% damage guaranteed. I prefer the 150% damage for now.

That said, the Flame Necklace is one of the few items that DOES increase the power of Hell Breath. Intellect does nothing for this skill. I happen to have two of them in my game and a fire bracelet for a potential total of 30+30+10 or 70%. Ugh, those keepers are SO hard to kill though.

Level 3 hell breath gives 40% damage * 1.7 = 68%.

So, I can do mass precision, and one hell breath on the lucky stack that gets to do, INSANE DAMAGE.

Yes, I did test this.

Sadly, since warriors tend to have double the leadership over mages, all I might have really gained is a flexible build due to superior mana pool and doublecast, but one that is "crippled" by requiring both buffs to reach the same level of damage, and possibly not as good against fire resistant enemies.

This almost makes me want to cry.