Google states:
“Let’s say you have 100% Area Damage and you hit one enemy for 1,000,000 damage (including a critical hit). If Area Damage procs, it will have a 20% chance to deal 1,000,000 damage to all other enemies within 10 yards, but not the initial target. If you hit multiple enemies, each hit has a chance to proc Area Damage on the surrounding enemies.”
Does this mean that every enemy within the 10 yard radius takes 1,000,000 damage?
ChatGPT states:
"Each Area Damage proc deals 20% of the triggering hit’s damage.
Scales with your Area Damage stat, so if you have +100% AD, it will deal 40% (20% base × 2)."
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Chat GPT is wrong in this case.
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Call me crazy, but I’ve tried multiple times to change its mind (sharing different sources), but it won’t budge.
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Simply anything with proc coeff higher than zero have 20% chance to trigger Area Damage 10 yards around the target by a ratio of initial damage depending on your stack of AD% stat. There is an article on it at maxroll, I wouldn’t trust Artificial Intelligence models for something I can test in-game or gather information from different sources.
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You need a skill that has Proc coefficient higher than 0 (those are kinda “hidden” for D3, if you played D4, that would be similar to lucky hit there).
Basically, if you hit a mob for 1M damage and this one is surrounded by 5 mobs, and you trigger AD you will hit the other 5 mobs for at least 500K damage (based that you have 50% AD from paragon).
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