Some Questions About Various Sets

Kennster007

Poisonous Serpent
https://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Poisonous+Serpent
(5 items) When you deal damage with a Light or Heavy Attack against an enemy who has a Poison Damage ability on them, you deal an additional 3945 Poison Damage. This effect can occur once every 2 seconds.

This wording makes it sound like poison damage enchantments will not make this proc, but that is not the case for other armor sets with similar wording. Can anyone tell me if poison damage enchantments or alchemical poisons will make this proc?

Twice-Fanged Serpent
https://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Twice-Fanged+Serpent+Set
(5 items) When you deal damage, your Physical Penetration is increased by 544 for 5 seconds, stacking up to 10 times. This effect can occur once every half second.

If I hit 10 enemies at once, will I get all 10 stacks immediately?

Seargeant's Mail
https://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Sergeant's+Mail+Set
(5 items) Increases the damage of your fully-charged Heavy Attacks by 2257.

Does the 50% heavy attack damage bonus from molten armaments also increase the 5-piece damage bouns from Seargeant's Mail?


Thanks in advance!

Mindcr0w

Kennster007 wrote: »

Twice-Fanged Serpent
https://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Twice-Fanged+Serpent+Set
(5 items) When you deal damage, your Physical Penetration is increased by 544 for 5 seconds, stacking up to 10 times. This effect can occur once every half second.

If I hit 10 enemies at once, will I get all 10 stacks immediately?

No. You can achieve a maximum of one stack per half second regardless of how often you are successfully completing attacks or how many enemies you hit.

YandereGirlfriend

I always wondered how sets like the Sergeant and Knight Slayer interacted with Lightning (or Resto) Heavy Attacks?

Do they apply for every tick like Maelstrom Staff and Undaunted Infiltrator/Unweaver or does the "fully charged" proviso mean that it only applies to the final tick?

Kennster007

YandereGirlfriend wrote: »

I always wondered how sets like the Sergeant and Knight Slayer interacted with Lightning (or Resto) Heavy Attacks?

Do they apply for every tick like Maelstrom Staff and Undaunted Infiltrator/Unweaver or does the "fully charged" proviso mean that it only applies to the final tick?

I think I've read about some other heavy attack ability procs that they proc only on the last tick. Otherwise it would be OP

MashmalloMan

Kennster007 wrote: »

Poisonous Serpent
https://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Poisonous+Serpent
(5 items) When you deal damage with a Light or Heavy Attack against an enemy who has a Poison Damage ability on them, you deal an additional 3945 Poison Damage. This effect can occur once every 2 seconds.

This wording makes it sound like poison damage enchantments will not make this proc, but that is not the case for other armor sets with similar wording. Can anyone tell me if poison damage enchantments or alchemical poisons will make this proc?

Typically "ability" is a very broad term in this game and includes things that you don't need to slot on your bar.

Elf Bane for example, increases flame damage over time "abilities" by 5s which includes set effects like Grothdar and Domihaus.

Light and Heavy attacks are actually considered "abilities" too, since they're buffed by related passives such as DW's +15% damage done to CC'ed enemies or the +20% execute damage.

With that in mind, although I have no reason to believe enchantments aren't to be considered "abilities", the sets proc condition doesn't seem like it would work from a Poison Enchantment alone.

"..against an enemy who has a Poison Damage ability on them.."

Poison Enchantments deal direct damage, the proc condition implies they must be affected by a damage over time effect..

The enchantment would probably work If the condition stated "..against an enemy who has received damage from a Poison Damage ability within 2seconds.."

So the enchantment alone, probably not. However, Poison Enchantments have a 20% chance to cause the Poisoned Status effect which should be considered a "Poison Damage Ability". The question is if status effects are considered abilities like set effects, I'm not sure, I've never tested that.

Same theory about Alchemical Poisons, as long as you're applying 1 that does Poison Damage, it will probably function as a "Poison Damage Ability" for the proc condition. Not ALL Alchemical Poisons would be considered "Poison Damage Abilities".

Anyone who can actually test this, prove this theory wrong or right

All things considered, you should probably rely on Poison Injection or Venom Arrow to use this set on demand instead of RNG.