When using some cold spell
+ Avatar of Fire
+ Cold to Fire
, how does the elemental damage modifier work? Does it apply to cold damage before conversion and to resulting converted fire damage? Or does it apply to only one element, and if so – does it apply before or after conversion?
Path of Exile – Does Increase Elemental Damage Double with AoF and CtF?
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Best Answer
Except in very rare cases (ignite and poison), damage modifiers will not double dip. The conversion is calculated first, then the increased and more multipliers. You can find several example conversions on the wiki page here: http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Damage_conversion
I'll copy the simplest one here for convenience.
In the case of ignite and poison, increased/more fire and chaos damage respectively WILL effect the resulting ignite/poison damage twice, once on the initial hit, then again for the DoT calculation. This is what led to the recent chaos conversion nerf, and will likely lead to a nerf for burn builds once GGG notice how ridiculous the DPS from a grand spectrum burn build can get. (Especially if you manage to add in Emberwake, The Taming, and say Quillrain)
There is also one passive near the witch called Snowforged that adds two separate bonuses to fire and cold damage, and will therefore work with conversion twice.
In the case of your specific example, you would get 100% of your cold damage converted to fire, then an additional 10-29% extra fire from the cold to fire gem. So with a level 20 gem, 129% of your base cold would be dealt as fire, then any increased/more modifiers would be applied to that 129% total fire damage. If your cold to fire gem was 20 quality as well, it would add 10% increased fire, and 10% increased cold, both of which would apply to the final damage because they are separate bonuses.