Igneous Weapons Bugged?

Sly145

Did some testing on Igneous weapons this morning after I noticed it didn't seem to be doing anything.

With melee weapons, attacks don't register as heavy unless they're fully charged.

With a staff, "medium" attacks still count as heavy, dealing increased damage and increasing the duration.

From everything I've seen, it sounds like igneous weapons should increase damage and duration for anything registered as a heavy attack (even if it isn't 100% charged). Which means while it is working for staff users, melee weapon users receive no benefit from medium attack weaving.

I'm relatively new, so I don't know if this was introduced in a recent patch or if this has been in place for a while.

Thoughts?

Seraphyel

The skill is new and was introduced with 1.6 3 weeks ago - and yes, the skill is somehow not working properly.

Obscure

Fully charged heavy attacks only benefit from the skill. It's not a bug.

Personally I think it should also give a lesser bonus to light attacks, but I agree with the design decision to reward fully charged heavy attacks only. It incentivizes heavy attack + stamina skill + block cancel weaving instead of basic attack weaving, which actually results in higher overall DPS.

I've built for stealth and fully charged heavy attacking... anything in PvE with less than 24k HP is a melee one shot with Molten Weapons...ANYTHING. If it has more than that I use the fully charged melee + whirlwind + block cancel + empowering chains + block cancel + heavy attack combo for some truly obscene DPS. I also use the Undaunted Infiltrator set, focused all my mage champion points in Atronach Blade Expert (dual wield swords), and have a critical rate over 40%. I'm still working on topping off the build with the Mephala set, and once it's done I'll port probably post a build video.

Many people have completely written off this skill. I've embraced it. It's wicked gnarly in the right build, but the trade off is it's worthless for traditional attack weaving... even though it's not really a trade off since the DPS is so much higher.

Sly145

There is definitely a bug. Either it is supposed to work on all heavy attacks regardless of charge (I believe this is the case) or it is only supposed to work on fully charged heavy attacks. Right now, it does both. For staffs, it works regardless of charge, but for melee, it has to be fully charged. So either it is not working properly with melee weapons or staffs.

I will be using fully charged heavy attacks with it because of this bug, but I would like to see it fixed, regardless of which weapon type has the bug.

Shadesofkin

Medium attacks seemed to be working for my DW Heavy Attacks, but I'm not 100% sure, I will check tonight to confirm.

Sly145

Please check, I wasn't getting duration extention or damage increase with my medium attacks, had to fully charge the heavy to get any effect.