So, Im chaplain already and Im having trouble choosing between toyhammer and valia. Can someone help me decide? How both procs works?
Btw im going for 2 int 1 spr and 50 con ( already put all 50 in con ) so my dmg will be from the magic procs
To my knowledge toyhammer only works with str builds since the explosion damage scales with str.
Valia works like any other dmg property +50 to autoattack, cafrisun and sacrament damage line.
I utilized Toy Hammer for a bit, and for the limited use (Roughly 70-110) I found the explosion to be rather wasted. I didn’t have the Chaplain added attack while I did use it, but as I was saying, the explosion for me came 85% of the time when the monster would have been dead anyways (its last 10-15%). Except for a few of those monsters that have abnormally large pools of hp and bosses, or dungeons, the Toy Hammer proc was wasted.
Also one little annoyance to note is that if the Toy Hammer’s debuff gets to 11 stack, it bugs out and does not reset properly. If you want it to be able to produce the explosion again on the target you have to wait the 2-3 seconds to let the debuff fall off before attacking once again. I found it rather annoying but I’m OCD about things.
Without ever having used Valia, but to add personal opinion, I feel its linear 50 holy damage to each damage application is far superior and more useful. Even with my high str (at the time of using Toy Hammer) the highest procs I would produce was 2.2k crits. And that might be a nice number on its own, but considering it took 10x hits to create this additioanl 2.2k. Then realizing that 2.2k was only roughly 10% more damage (simply lumped into one number) I began to realize Valia would have been a more useful choice…
My rant, but that’s just me.
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Mini Necroing this, but FYI and unless they changed it, Toy Hammer proc effect, takes into consideration additional attacks i.e. Cafrisun’s additional attack hit and Bless, Aspergillum, Last Rites. I remember you can have explosions every 2 or 3 autos as a Chaplain.
Necro! This was removed last patch. Only counts as 1 hit now