What factors determine vaporization on death?

Hail_Sithis

(For the record, VR-1 destro-staff sorcerer)
A simple question regarding the cause of hostile NPCs/players disintegrating on death. I find this pretty satisfying when it happens, and would like to be able to have it happen more frequently.

I theorized It was crit based, but my critical hits don't seem to factor into the chance of the special death effect happening.

I see videos such as this, where essentially everything he kills is vaporized, and feel like I'm missing something, any help in my sick desire to turn my enemies into ash will be greatly appreciated and all that jazz.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiq1X6wEwgI

cromica81_ESO

I always thought it was when the kill shot was a crit

Shimond

It's either the weapon proc crit or just the weapon proc itself. I'm not sure which. Since I see it happen on enchanted weapons (not just fire, lightning, ice staves) I'm tempted to say it's proc crit - otherwise it would be a lot more frequent.

Sorpaijen_ESO

Stormcalling's passive Disintegrate-II gives lightning powers a 10% chance to disintegrate low-health targets... I am not sure if crit chance ALSO factors into that, so a critter could disintegrate based on the crit OR on the Disintegrate passive working....

driosketch

It's a bonus proc of some kind, that much is sure. I know silver bolts have a chance of an instakill on certain types of enemies that has a disintegration effect. I wonder if the chances are the same.

For both staves and enchantments:
Lightening disintegrates.
Fire burns up.
Frost freezes then shatters them.
Either poison or disease causes them to shrivele into a husk.