How does it work ? What scales Thorns dmg ? Can it crit ? What stats effect throns dmg?
Would appreciate an explanation please
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To put it simply it’s a set amount of damage reflected on the attacker anytime the player takes damage from an enemy, and is multiplied by any damage modifier. For example if you have a modifier that deals more damage to close enemies and you are hit with a melee attack this will increase the damage that enemy takes from thorns.
It should be noted Thorns damage is a flat amount of damage, it does not have a range, if an item says it’s going to do 100 thorns damage, it will do exactly 100 thorns damage (ignoring any modifiers of course). It won’t deal a range of 80 to 100, it’ll just be a flat 100.
I’m going to steal from a few sources but I’ll quote this:
Critical Strike Chance and Critical Strike Damage are also great, as your Thorns can Crit. Damage to Healthy Enemies, Damage to Injured Enemies, and Damage to Slowed/CC’d Enemies also add a lot of Damage to your Thorns.
General Tips
- Protection Shrines prevent your Thorns from proccing, so you probably don’t want to click them.
- When you Dodge, your Thorns do not proc. Avoid equipping gear with Dodge on it.
- Thorns do not count as direct damage.
- Make sure to get hit by enemy attacks to proc your Thorns!
- Seriously, get hit
Barbarian is probably your best bet for a pure thorns build, as they can typically withstand the punishment better then most classes, not to mention the many skills and passives that just add thorn damage. Barbarians also have “Death Wish” a very specific aspect that will grant you thorn damage while Berserking. If they have a Necro buddy who also casts out Iron Maiden even better.
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Thank u very much for ur help , i was thinking to try out minion thorn build in theory is sounds cool .
If ur under a Barier from bone storm thorns still can proc ?
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You would be fine because barriers don’t negate damage, they absorb damage instead. You’re still getting hit but it’s not hurting your actual health just your barrier.
Protection Shrines prevent you from taking any damage, they make you invulnerable, that’s why they won’t proc thorns at all. You have to be taking damage to actually proc thorns. On the bright side it doesn’t matter how much damage you take, if it hits a barrier, or the damage is reduced, etc. the enemy will still get hit by your thorns.
A pet thorn build can work, at least for the early game, and there are some passives to increase the amount of thorns your pets receive from you and your gear. I don’t know how viable it will be in the endgame, as I haven’t personally tried it. I would say the biggest issue you might have are bosses killing your minions too fast in the higher NM dungeons.
Dont forget needleflare aspect that gives thorns aoe
Hm i think i will make a thorn miniom as a secondary char in s2 , just for fun maybe it will work out 
i wonder if it will be possible to complete nm 100 on it.
On the ather hand making thorn build on hc sounds a bit extreme
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