Bloodthirst and Leeching Strikes: synergy?

Kemenril

I'm a little confused at how the combat system understands Bloodthirst relative to other attacks. If I have Leeching Strikes toggled on, and activate Bloodthirst, does it read each of the five attacks as a light attack? Would it trigger the effect of Leeching Strikes per landed blow? If so, this would seem quite effective as a way to sustain the cost of Bloodthirst.

If this does not work this way, I suppose there would be no point in keeping both of these skills on the same line, since the whole point of having Leeching Strikes is to maximize the effect of light attacks.

Asmael

A light attack is simply that: a weapon attack, thus dependent on your currently equipped weapon. A fire staff light attack throws a small fireball in a straight line, DW (Dual wield) light attacks will make your character with each weapon equipped in succession. Leeching strikes is in no way related to other abilities.

To maximize the benefit of Leeching strikes, you want to be looking at weaving, which means you are going to use a light attack right before an ability to be able to not only get the extra damage from the light attack for free, but also the resource return from Leeching Strikes.

You can learn more about weaving in the below video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTjhXLQXpac

Kemenril

Thanks, I'm currently doing weaving/ACing, but I guess I'm not 100% certain about the under-the-hood mechanics of it. But if you're saying that the individual strikes of Bloodthirst are in now way connected to any other form of attack (and thus do not trigger the effect of Leeching Strikes), I guess that answers my question.

Autolycus

Kemenril wrote: »

Thanks, I'm currently doing weaving/ACing, but I guess I'm not 100% certain about the under-the-hood mechanics of it. But if you're saying that the individual strikes of Bloodthirst are in now way connected to any other form of attack (and thus do not trigger the effect of Leeching Strikes), I guess that answers my question.

It's not always that black and white, there are some other nuances that will compliment Bloodthirst, a simple example is dual-wield passives that increase damage to low-health targets. In that scenario, Bloodthirst gets buffed by that passive, and each individual hit benefits from it.

However, for this specific example, we're looking for a benefit that comes from only light attacks, and asking about a skill. Skills and light attacks are two different beasts, so to get the benefit from Leeching Strikes, you'd want to weave light attacks before and/or after Bloodthirst. All five individual hits collectively constitute a single cast of the skill; you can't put light attacks in between each of the hits, only before and/or after the entire channel is complete.