How does pestilent points aspect work?

Rogue
1

So I’m a little confused as to how it works. It says applies poison imbuement at 150% potency. Does this mean:

  1. Poison imbuement level doesn’t matter as it is going to apply 150% of the hit damage as DoT

Or

  1. Poison imbuement level does matter as it’s going to increase poison imbuements damage by 150%. Meaning level 8 poison imbuement doing 204% damage will be increased by 1.5x making the aspect do 306% of hit damage as DoT?
2

Its not worth it to worry about the damage. Pumctures damage is low anyway and you are probably not investing 5 skill points in it.

Its more of a vehicle to proc poison effects. It actually has a lot of synergy with toxic alchemist.

3

Cold imbuement doesn’t really need more than 1 point, so if extra points in poison helps the aspect then why not just do it. Also getting imbuement on helmet.

4

Well yes, but im referring to shadow imbuement and toxic alchemist.

5

I wish Blizzard would clarify how Potency affects all of the imbuements in Diablo IV. From all I’ve gathered online, mostly through speculation from how it works in Diablo Immortal, it seems to increase the time duration of all status effects that the imbuement skill directly inflicts:

Poison: increased poisoning duration
Cold: increased chill duration
Shadow: increased shadow infection duration?

Regarding Shadow imbuement, increasing the duration seems to only benefit the two final upgrades, particularly the one that increases elemental damage to shadow infected enemies by 12%(x). However, other than the increased damage or causing vulnerable, increasing the duration (“potency”) should negatively affect the shadow imbuement by taking longer to explode on the infected boss/elite that you are trying to get as much DPS on if you can’t kill within 6-8 seconds.