As the Maelstrom bow is normally a backbar weapon for stamina, Nirn is generally best as im pretty sure the dots you cast are calculated off of your weapon damage from the bar they are casted and carry over to front bar. And if you running the Lover mundus you will need the weapon damage.

Jultzy wrote: »

Infused is a good option with a weapon damage enchaunt because then the weapon damage gets carried over to your front bar abilities and you can therefore run other enchants on the front bar weapon which gives more raw damage. I would say that Infused is the best option followed by Nirnhoned but it depends on what you're doing.

Infused depends very much on rotation. If you are proccing the enchant immediately on swapping to bow bar then you either need to stay on bar for ~5+ seconds or you need to swap back to main bar within 2 seconds. Otherwise the extra weapon damage from the infused isn't significant over Berserker enchant with another trait. Basically you either need to spending almost no time on your back bar or you need to be landing a second proc before going back to main bar.

I say nirhoned and the enchant doesnt matter because u want to be running double health poison on bow bar

Single target DoTs will inherit the stats they got when cast, AoE DoTs will update their stats for every tick. People recommend Nirnhoned or Precise because they run double ravage health potions on back bar, and in that case Infused is useless since poisons override enchants. But if you're not using poisons Infused w Berserker enchant is actually one of the better traits. The enchant will be still up by the time you have cast Poison Injection.

Back bar rotation looks something like that: Rearming Trap -> LA* -> Endless Hail -> LA -> Poison Injection -> LA -> Razor Caltrops -> Swap. This typically takes ~4s so if the enchant procs at * it will be active for the whole sequence duration and about 1s after swapping, when there's a chance the off-hand Berserker takes over, but that's not relevant.

So the back bar Berserker it will surely buff Poison Injection and ticks from other skills that happen on back bar and about 1s after swapping. When using Maelstrom bow never swap-cancel Endless Hail since it will no apply the special effect. I preffer swap-canceling Razor Caltrops since the animation is clunky but it makes no difference if you cancel on any other skill, including Poison Injection.

Thank you for all the helpful replies.