I just picked up a Visage of Gunes, which adds the Dark Heart rune to Vengeance. This is a lightning-based rune.
I’ve got a couple of Lightning skills stats on my equipment.
e.g.: Lightning Skills deal 20% more damage.
That doesn’t have any effect on this defensive-based rune, right?
No.
Technically Vengeance does deal a small amount of damage from the rockets and side guns. But the element type of that damage will still be determined by the rune you put on your bar, Gunes doesn’t change Vengeance to lightning. It just gives you the damage reduction on top of the rune you have on your bar. Looks like you are running Seethe, so your Vengeance will deal physical damage (even with Gunes).
And all that being said, you shouldn’t worry about buffing Vengeance damage anyway. It’s used as more of a utility skill, for a damage bonus, hatred regen, and/or damage reduction. You should focus your elemental damage bonuses towards buffing your main damage-dealing skill. You’ll want lightning damage because you are using the lightning rune on Impale, and that will deal the majority of your damage. The type of damage Vengeance deals isn’t really a factor, it’s mostly useful for the buffs, not the actual damage it deals.
You’ve got a wonky build using LoD for Impale so if that’s the skill you want, I’d highly recommend building towards a full S6 set - that’s going to give you a massive boost in toughness and damage with the set bonuses…
2pc - 6000% damage increase
4pc - Shadow Power all runes (speed/dr/etc) last forever
6pc - 75000% damage increase on first hit on enemy
These are way better than what you get with LoD - or maybe you’re shooting to get picked for the weekly Challenge Rift (lol)??
In the meantime, I’d swap the HPS from Helen to Dolores, roll the socket off for Impale damage. Yeah, it’s not ancient (and you technically prefer that for the LoD bonus), but it’s got Lightning and Crit Chance on it - a lightning/crit/impale Holy Point Shot is pretty gg. Plus a socket on a quiver is never really wanted.
One more thing - elemental damage on weapon is meaningless - you always deal the type of damage based on the rune selected. So unless you rolled a low damage range on the Karlei’s, you kinda gimped it (though the Life on Hit is a great stat - i would have rolled of Vit for 10% damage)…
Keep grinding an happy pew-pewing!
I know. I haven’t played in a few years and this is my first experience with LoD and I wanted to play with it some to see what it’s capable of. But I was maxxing out at about GR63 and getting bored. So I swapped in a shadow set and just screamed through GR 73 with mediocre gear, killing that guardian with a two-shot. So I’ll work on building that up from here on.