Is Vicious Death not working correctly?

Veinblood1965 · September 5

>>>(5 items) Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration, When you kill a Player, they violently explode for 3322 Flame damage to all other enemies in a 5 meter radius. This effect scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.

I've never really paid attention to the VD proc and whether it is activating like it should. It does not say anything about there being a cool down so I'm assuming that's not the issue.

I was testing a new build on some trash mobs in Fungal Grotto and noticed that even though the mobs were grouped closely together almost on top of each other when one died nothing happened to any of the others a lot of the time. Actually quite a LOT of the time. I tested this extensively and it was actually rare for anything to happen at all. Maybe one out of five times it actually did anything at all, the other four just the target mob died.

If i recall my tool tip said it should proc for around 17k to all enemies as I pushed my weapon and spell damage to the limit with the new build. I'm thinking this might be the 5 meter bug that occurs so much of the time with other things. Anyone else tested this lately? I know it does work in Cyrodill as I die from it sometimes.

Heren · September 5

When you kill a Player

a Player

I guess that's the explanation ?

Aurielle · September 5

Read the set description closely. Monsters in dungeons are not players, i.e. it only works in PVP areas against other people. If you want a set that does AOE damage on monster deaths in PVE, use Macabre Vintage.

Veinblood1965 · September 5

Well I guess that solves it. I mainly PVP so never really used it on mobs lol. Thanks everyone.

On the plus side the new build is quite vicious! Combined it with Tarnished since it and VD both increase off of Weapon and Spell damage on a NB bow build without a monster set so both proc all the time and it's pretty nasty in a group setting.

RaidingTraiding · September 5

Curious what the one out of five times was.

danno8 · September 5

RaidingTraiding wrote: »

Curious what the one out of five times was.

Behold the power of the placebo effect.

Aurielle · September 6

RaidingTraiding wrote: »

Curious what the one out of five times was.

Could have been Occult Overload if OP has that slotted.

Veinblood1965 · September 6

RaidingTraiding wrote: »

Curious what the one out of five times was.

I think it might have been the tarnished. Maybe a crit on that perhaps, not sure if tarnished crits though. The reason I thought so was when you see the little numbers flashing on the mobs the damage numbers were higher than normal. Had to be since VD is only on players.