So to preface, i’m not claiming to be DH expert and apologies for my English.
However, I have found that in general, Havoc Tooltips on many ablities classify damage school as chaos, but in reality there are 2 different type of chaos damage. The first type is actually chaos as I understand it (containing every damage type including holy and physical), while the other type of chaos is without those 2 damage types. On Details those latter types are classes as Chromatic.
Through some testing, I have the abilities categorised as follows, may not be the exhaustive list.
Chaos damage abilities/effects:
- Chaos Strike (and Annihilation)
- Blade Dance (and Death Sweep) - the primary target portion
- Inner Demon
Chromatic damage abilities/effects:
- Eye beam
- Soulscar
- Trail of Ruin
- The Hunt
- Sigil of Spite
- Burning Wound
- Wounded Quarry
This difference in damage school is because it would scuff Aldrachi Reaver talent Wounded Quarry as it only procs damage off of physical damage. Chaos damage contains the physical damage school, so it would trigger Wounded Quarry whereas the latter type doesn’t. However, Tooltips indicate they are all chaos damage, which at best is misleading and at worst is causing dps loss for playing Aldrachi.
It’s just limited testing with Wounded Quarry so if there’s other weird interactions, let me know. I’m sure there are other talent nodes that buff one type of chaos damage and doesn’t buff the other.