Deadly and Channeled Attacks...

Zama666 · January 10

Not sure why I find this so confusing.

(5 items) Increase the damage your damage over time and channeled attacks do by 15%.

Channeled attack are anything that are not instant?

So Destruction staff (lighting) would be pointless with it.

Two - handed - Dizzying swing - yes, Onslaught - yes, Stampeded - no?

Those are channeled, right?

And Ao#, right? But no effect on healing...just attacks, right?

Tankz,

Z

phaneub17_ESO · January 10

Cast time is not channeled.

Fatecarver, Puncturing Strikes, Radiant Destruction, Flurry (dual wield), and Soul Strike are channeled abilities.

Now for the damage over time portion, the second half of Stampede where it lays the aoe on the ground does count as does Cleave/Carve, Lightning Staff Destructive Reach or either Wall of Elements is damage over time.

Trejgon · January 10

channeled attacks are the things that list in the tooltip that have channel time (not casting time) and lightning staffs heavy attack.

Vaqual · January 10

instant: complete effect applies instantly
cast time: effect happens after casting time
channel: effect is applied in chunks over the duration of the channel

Dagoth_Rac · January 10

One of the key aspects of channeled skills is that stuff starts happening, stuff continues happening for a period of time, and you can't do anything else while this is happening.

So Uppercut has a delay before skill does damage, but once the delay is finished, it does its damage instantly and you are done. Not channeled.

Jabs has no delay before damage, and then the damage continues happening for about 1 second, and you can't do anything until it finishes. Yes, this is a channel.

Wall of Elements has no delay before damage, and then the damage continues happening for about 10 seconds, but you can do other stuff while the skill persists. Not a channel.

CameraBeardThePirate · January 10

The key distinction to make is Cast Time vs Channel.

For example, a lot of people were spreading (and continue to spread) the misinformation that Arcanist's tentacle spammable is buffed by Deadly. This is not true, as the tentacles are a Cast Time, and not a Channel.

Channeled abilities have their effects spread out over the duration. They include:

Lightning Heavy Attacks
Resto Heavy Attacks
Templar Jabs
Templar Beam
Arcanist Beam
Psijic Meditate
Psijic Time Stop (only that morph)
Soul Strike Ultimate (Soul Magic skill line)
Toxic Barrage Ultimate (Bow ultimate)
Flurry and morphs
Vamp Drain

I think that's all of them (there aren't many), although I may have missed some so if I did just reply and I'll add it to the list.

sharquez · January 10

Believe it or not, for Soulshine all heavy attacks count as channeled abilities. dunno what this means for deadly..

CameraBeardThePirate · January 10

sharquez wrote: »

Believe it or not, for Soulshine all heavy attacks count as channeled abilities. dunno what this means for deadly..

EDIT: Soulshine likely works with heavies because soulshine works with both channels and cast times. The non Lightning/Resto heavies still count as a cast time.

MindOfTheSwarm · January 10

CameraBeardThePirate wrote: »

The key distinction to make is Cast Time vs Channel.

For example, a lot of people were (and continue to) spread the misinformation that Arcanist's tentacle spammable is buffed by Deadly. This is not true, as the tentacles are a Cast Time, and not a Channel.

Channeled abilities have their effects spread out over the duration. They include:

Lightning Heavy Attacks
Resto Heavy Attacks
Templar Jabs
Templar Beam
Arcanist Beam
Psijic Meditate
Psijic Time Stop (only that morph)
Soul Assault Ultimate (Soul Magic skill line)
Toxic Barrage Ultimate (Bow ultimate)
Flurry and morphs

I think that's all of them (there aren't many), although I may have missed some so if I did just reply and I'll add it to the list.

Vamp Drain.

CameraBeardThePirate · January 11

MindOfTheSwarm wrote: »

CameraBeardThePirate wrote: »

The key distinction to make is Cast Time vs Channel.

For example, a lot of people were (and continue to) spread the misinformation that Arcanist's tentacle spammable is buffed by Deadly. This is not true, as the tentacles are a Cast Time, and not a Channel.

Channeled abilities have their effects spread out over the duration. They include:

Lightning Heavy Attacks
Resto Heavy Attacks
Templar Jabs
Templar Beam
Arcanist Beam
Psijic Meditate
Psijic Time Stop (only that morph)
Soul Assault Ultimate (Soul Magic skill line)
Toxic Barrage Ultimate (Bow ultimate)
Flurry and morphs

I think that's all of them (there aren't many), although I may have missed some so if I did just reply and I'll add it to the list.

Vamp Drain.

Thanks I definitely forgot about it.

What a strange skill - so little use but in the scenarios you would use it in its incredibly powerful. Pretty fun.

Baconlad · January 13

Yeah. Invigorating drain as a spammable. Just to help build up to a max DPS soul assault at 500 ult balorg. Oooooo buddy.