Do gems have secondary effects?

Question

Do elemental gems in Torchlight 2 have secondary effects other than direct elemental damage or elemental armor?

I am referring to poison, fire, ice and electric gem and try to understand which of them are better-

Answer 1

Each element has its own attack side effect, which has a chance to occur on each hit. Some of them are hinted at in the loading screen tips.

• Ice attacks have a chance to Freeze, which slows down movement, attack, and cast speed by 33% for a few seconds.
• Poison attacks have a chance to Poison, which reduces damage and all armor by 33%
• Electric attacks have a chance to Shock, which causes the afflicted enemy to emit electric bolts that damage more enemies every time it is hit.
• Fire attacks have a chance to Burn, which is fire damage over time that ignores armor.

Note that these all have a chance to occur on elemental attacks from any source, including skills. Elemental gems give you these effects only as a direct consequence of giving your weapon an additional elemental attack type.

Answer 2

as far as i know they do not have any further effects. The idea behind finding the right one for you and your char should be the rest of your skilltree/items, just because the gems dmg is effected by skills/items. As an example: if you skilled 40% poison dmg, you ll get 40% more dmg from poison gems in contrast to the other elements.

if that does not really answer your question feel fre to give me further explanation ;).

edit: see selfcomment - i forget about so much cuz of all these new games :D

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