Why does the Vigor skill bonus from equipment not increase Blessed Hammer damage?

This is my damage when boots on.

This is my damage when boots off.

Vigor is synergy for Blessed Hammer, why doesn't the boots increase my damage?

2 Answers

Simply put, synergies only work for the base skill points invested into the skill. So even though the actual skill "Vigor" is being enhanced by the boots, any synergies with the skill is not.

The only way to increase "Blessed Hammer"'s damage, once you have maxed the hard skill points (from levels and quests) into the synergies, is to get soft skill points (from equipment) that add to "Blessed Hammer" (or +combat or +all skills).

This is a safety to prevent synergies from spiking out of control with +all skills items.

Skill bonuses from items don't affect synergies.