Hey all, I haven't been able to find information regarding the specifics of how splash damage works. Specifically I understand the mechanics for single target skills but am unaware of how it works with AOE abilities. Lets say for instance a barb using cleave on 5 enemies, is splash damage calculated for every enemy hit provided you get lucky and it procs off every enemy? Each enemy then taking 20% × 4 damage additionally provided you have that much splash damage?
so with the paragon passive if you have 14 points into AOE you'd get just a flat 14% increased damage into the cleave
which to me means - increases arena damage by a % (1) per point
Item bonus + paragon goes to that x%.
That clears it up! i never moused over it because in the paragon tab i thought i knew what it was talking about.