CPs Occult Overload - How does it work, exactly?

CaptainVenom

"Whenever you kill an enemy under the effect of a status effect, they violently explode for 2000 Oblivion Damage per stage to all other enemies in a 4 meter radius."

Yes... so I need to debuff my foe for it to work, but what debuffs count for it? Tried fracture/breach, chill, concussion, burning... nothing triggered it (or at least nothing that I could notice).

Xuhora

status effect means burned, chilled, poisoned or the new status effect overcharged i believe.
did you get the killing blow?

CaptainVenom

Xuhora wrote: »

status effect means burned, chilled, poisoned or the new status effect overcharged i believe.
did you get the killing blow?

Yes. I was soloing some mob... noticed no explosion at all.

Krileon

CaptainVenom wrote: »

Xuhora wrote: »

status effect means burned, chilled, poisoned or the new status effect overcharged i believe.
did you get the killing blow?

Yes. I was soloing some mob... noticed no explosion at all.

I don't think it has any kind of particle effect and if it does it's super small. It however is showing up in my DPS meter. Doesn't seam worth running over flat % damage passives though. It was consistently my lowest damage attack of everything on my meter.

Scardan

Well, it saddens me that they talk about explosion in description and there is no epic explosion visualy.

Red_Feather

I haven't seen it happen once.

etchedpixels

Scardan wrote: »

Well, it saddens me that they talk about explosion in description and there is no epic explosion visualy.

Nothing visual, and doesn't seem to be anything but a toy for combining with magicka detonation and vicious death next winter if and when they finally fix PVP.

Datolite

etchedpixels wrote: »

Scardan wrote: »

Well, it saddens me that they talk about explosion in description and there is no epic explosion visualy.

Nothing visual, and doesn't seem to be anything but a toy for combining with magicka detonation and vicious death next winter if and when they finally fix PVP.

Does mag detonation apply a status effect?

Elo106

Datolite wrote: »

etchedpixels wrote: »

Scardan wrote: »

Well, it saddens me that they talk about explosion in description and there is no epic explosion visualy.

Nothing visual, and doesn't seem to be anything but a toy for combining with magicka detonation and vicious death next winter if and when they finally fix PVP.

Does mag detonation apply a status effect?

Magic Damage has a chance to apply Overcharged. It deals minor damage and applies Minor Magickasteal for 4 seconds.
But the skill itself doesnt applz a status effect, just deals damage

Yamenstein

Scardan wrote: »

Well, it saddens me that they talk about explosion in description and there is no epic explosion visualy.

Just another semi implementation on ZoSs part.

Finedaible

Haven't tried it but it seems like a perk one would take for a tiny (very tiny) boost in pvp if you have nothing else to spend points on. Oblivion damage is intended for pvp and will always be underpowered by design sadly. Could have been cool if we were able to specialize in boosting Oblivion damage under the new cp system.

phaneub17_ESO

When I first tried it, I thought it wasn't working until you realize there is no animation associated with it, so how do you know its working? With floating combat texts while no visuals come with it, you will see exactly 4000 damage pop ups dealt to other targets, since its Oblivion damage it can't be resisted and I don't believe it can crit either so every time it procs you see exactly 4000 damage if its maxed out. It's most notable for me in Delves and Public Dungeons where mobs are tightly packed together in groups of 3 or more.

As for who it works best, I would say magicka builds as you can get triple elemental debuffs with class skills doing one elemental damage and an overcharged destruction staff with the third element enchanted. So DK does Fire damage skill + Lightning Staff + Frost damage enchant for optimum proc chance; that's my opinion of course. It can work with Melee damage as well, best combo is having a bleed and poison effect as the damage over time increases the frequency of applying a status effect with each tick.

depravity_influence

how do yall think this will play out with U39?

BXR_Lonestar

I think you need to use a charged weapon to increase your chances of applying status effects, and then you want to use a variety of abilities that can proc status effects so you have multiple chances to proc one or more status effects on your target.

To maximize the effect, I think there is a craftable armor set that will increase the effect of your weapon trait by 100%, and this can be used to further increase your chances of applying status effects.

Its been a while since I've seen a build to maximize Occult Overload, but I believe a lightning staff is your best choice.

ZOS_Icy

Greetings,

We have closed this topic as it was originally created in March 2021. In many cases, it's better to create a new thread on a topic that you want to discuss as opposed to bumping one that is rather old.

Thank you for your understanding.