Petrify mechanics and specific understanding of who and what is affected by the critical strike damage bonus

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“Encase all nearby enemies in stone, stunning them for 4 seconds. You deal 30%(x) increased critical strike damage to enemies affected by petrify.”

can someone explain how are bosses affected by petrify if they aren’t actually stunned due to them having a stagger bar?

do they get the effect of being “encased in stone” for the duration therefore you get the crit bonus to them?

do you need to use petrify to trigger full stagger bar therefore getting the bonus for petrify duration/stagger duration?

are they not actually affected by petrify in any way?

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There is no info that can be found on this. Will just have to test it out.

Does it increase boss stagger?
IF yes then a boss is most likely counted as petrified when its staggered.
Does it just encase in stone immediately?
Does it break on damage?

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it hast been explained, bosses stagger due to crowd control effects inflicted to them.

if a boss is fully staggered, every form of cc damage ampifyer applies to it.

critical strikes OP are not a CC for example.

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so are you saying the petrify bonus of 50%(x) crit damage is only applied to bosses when they are fully staggered and is within the petrify duration, which is 7 seconds by default? is it when you use petrify to trigger the stagger or is it when you petrify them while staggered? if either is true how do you know that to be the case?

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You are supposed to get the petrify bonus damage during the full duration of a boss stagger as they are considered affected by every CC during this time. Using petrify on a boss that is not staggered will fill up some of their stagger bar helping you stagger them faster.

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ANY kind of damage increase towards ccd enemies applies to bosses when they are staggered for as long when they are staggered. yes.

bosses and regular mobbs work differently.if you petrify a boss without it having its stagger metre filled, youll increase its stagger, but wont deal extra damage. ccing them whike they are staggered is meanlingless, as far as i know ^^

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The Diablo wiki doesnt list petrify as a CC type for stagger so its not 100% for sure. If you use this and it increases stagger then its fairly certain though. I havent made a druid in a couple seasons so :man_shrugging:

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i never used the spell myself, but yea, petrifying something should be considered a cc. but the again. its diablo. fair point :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: (my last druid is from s2. necro for life :smiley: )

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Always assumed it just worked on the boss regardless of stagger since it always felt like a dps boost to just use every chance on cooldown. Suppose could just go test later.

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so this means i need to save petrify to initiate a stagger on a boss or use it when its staggered for the 50%(x) crit damage bonus?

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might be correct actually.

Encase all Nearby enemies in stone, Stunning them for 3.75 seconds. You deal 30% [x] increased Critical Strike Damage to enemies affected by Petrify.
Against Bosses, the Critical Strike Damage bonus is increased to 50% [x] and its duration is increased to 7.5 seconds.

if you can, test it bud, im kinda curious ^^

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Use it before the boss is staggered to help stagger it faster then benefit from the damage increase during the stagger. Using CCs during a stagger wastes them. Outside of this it may be more beneficial to save it to CC adds in some cases.

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so just to be clear, you are saying the ONLY time you benefit from the 50%(x) crit damage bonus is when you actually use the ability to initiate a stagger against a boss?

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damage to any kind of cc’d enemies only applies to staggered bosses, as far as i know.

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No I think he is saying just use it before the stagger to get maximum benefits. Every build does more damage to a staggered boss, that extra crit damage is even more valuable during that window.

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so you(a different person) is saying that i can use it at any time as long as the AOE of petrify hits the boss i get the 7 seconds(default) bonus of 50%(x) crit damage? you seem to be saying something different and i’m not sure who i’m supposed to believe, if either of you to begin with lol.

i’m leaning more towards what Nyurei is saying because it makes sense to me that the bonus to bosses is only applied to those bosses during the stagger window due to them only being actually counted as CC’ed in that window. that to me means i need to save petrify for when the boss is going to stagger from using petrify or use it when its already staggered to get the crit damage bonus.

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My guess is this works like all other CC. If you use it and the boss is not staggered it does nothing. IF you use it and it staggers boss or boss is already staggered you get the damage bonus while boss is staggered.

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by “does nothing” you mean i don’t get the 50%(x) crit damage boost unless, like you said, petrify is used during boss stagger or to initiate one?

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Basically if boss is not staggered it does nothing. IF boss is staggered and u used it then it does something. If boss is staggered and you dont use it then it does nothing.

IF u use this and it does not increase stagger bar then it just works all the time while u use it is my guess.

Go test it out…

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Idk from a quick test this seems to work without stagger. Using a base level Earth Spike the difference in numbers changed. Around 45k on boss dummy without Petrify, if I Petrify the boss (without staggering) they go to around 60-85k. Tried to not use vulnerability or poison to affect numbers. Similar jumps when using vuln/poison too. I still think Petrify works on bosses without the stagger and they are under Petrify for the 7 seconds after being hit regardless.