Do You Gain Damage from Ailment Duration in Path of Exile? 

Well... my ex certainly hates faster and prefers longer....

I always end making a ignite build every league, cause its a build i already know, and isnt that hard to understand, in this league i made it with purifiying flame, its has similar numbers to WoC(a bit less dmg), but the functionality gives me more pleasure, i dont like how slow WoC is expanding, also the consec ground its a bit of extra survivality, i tried it also with arc, but basically its less dmg, more area coverage with the chains, nice video bro

Longer is better (c) Maven

it's kinda wild to think about how much path of building influences the way people play poe.

In my case I believe that as long as ignites arent less than 1.5 seconds its good enough, as long as your build isnt a meme you should be able to reapply your ignite at the very least once each two seconds

slight clarification at the part about stacking swift affliction and replica emberwake because I found it confusing and had to look it up -- swift affliction applies a Less Duration modifier, not a reduced, meaning it's multiplicative -- ignite duration in this case would be 7.5% of the base or in other words about 0.28s, but he's still correct in saying that the ignite would have a duration of 0 seconds because PoE rounds ignite duration down to 0 if it would be less than 0.3s.

Bleed can stack up to 8x under some circumstance

I love DoT builds. Currently playing a poison impending doom occultist and it's great.

Around 2:30 you mention pob not calculating ranges for ignites, i found out it actually does. Youll find cast speed can raise your ignite dps for this reason - its the average roll if you were attacking continuously forever. It is not just any old average roll.

Grab several regen remnants on an Expedition boss without countering the life regen and that feels like infinite health

longer and faster deal the most damage when they are balanced

It's almost time for Vaal Flameblast! :D

Ignite and damage over time builds are in a great place right now in that they are both numerically strong and offer an objectively safer playstyle in that you can choose when to reapply and still have dps assuming duration is long enough Just an off point but after watching WoC gameplay im just sitting here wondering why people dont play arc ignite more, vaal arc is 0.2% but it pops full legions in under a second and has low vaal soul cooldown/charge requirement, WoC looks way slower/dangerous in that you need to stop longer/closer and aim it

Ailments is really fun especially making some crazy number happens. Is that an ignite that lasts 0.2 seconds, then I can apply 5 ignites every second.

Shouldn't Elemental Overload work on DoT skills with a hit component? Because anything that hits should also be able to crit. Vortex, Cold Snap, and Creepinf Frost all hit.

my problem with dmg over time builds is ( mostly chaos) is that you will not be able to do competitive dmg without cluster jewels ( to few sources of incresed dmg in passive tree) and obtaining / craftig a decent weapon is a nightmare.

I'm starting to think about altering my EA ballista champ so instead of doing no damage for an extra totem (running 5 atm) I drop one in favour of a supplementary damage skill with the spare 6link. As I am running what pertains to an ignite build for prolif in maps with density, I was thinking something more single target (boss) based that can take advantage of any extra DoT and increased damage I already use. But got to go do some maths. Any ideas would help. Cheers.

I'm currently doing a WoC ignite build, and the damage is great (~9mil), but survivability is an issue for me. Stuck at level 95 :/

I was playing badgers ignite discharge, enjoyable build overall, but i was constantly getting fuc*ed by multiple monster aliment avoidance sources in instances....

Why WoC and pury flame (phys to fire damage) doesnt drop ignite prolif circles?

I mean if you can make it deal damage fast... but you really want DPS, not duration. Most ailment builds can easily reapply ailments.

I have a question, I am playing Cobra Lash and in PoB my hit DPS is 1 million and damage from 1 poison is 1.5 million, is my hit DPS too high? What should I do if it is

Ailment builds are only one really viable

Btw don't try to speed up your dot on soulrend.

Single target damage seems to be near impossible for me on dot builds

There's another problem with poison DPS in PoB. It's assuming that you're hitting and applying poisons ALL THE TIME so you habe maximum stacks. Because it's not possible 20% faster poison damage is very strong