Elfbane Question

Chibs · July 2018

The idea is to run 5bsw body and 3elf jewel with a destruction staff frontbar and vma Staff backbar. If I cast wall of elements on my backbar does elfbane apply when I switch to my frontbar?

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO · July 2018

No. You need to use five elf bane on the body and a bsw fire/lighting front bar.

Harrdarrzarr · July 2018

Elfbane on body and jewels doesn't have to be a problem. Light monsterset and 3x bsw armor, 2 elf bane armor and 3 jewels. with a bsw fire staff if you have it

LinearParadox · July 2018

No.
Elf Bane must be active (5pc equipped) when you cast the skill, for it to apply.
It, however, does not need to remain active for the duration of the skill.
You could have Elf Bane active only on your backbar when you cast Wall, Destro touch, Burning Embers, or any of the other skills that it buffs, then freely switch to your front bar without losing the buffed duration on the skills.
In other words, the buff applies at the time of casting the skill.

Hope that helps!

Qbiken · July 2018

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This parse is with elf-bane only on frontbar (since I don´t have a siroria destro-staff). You will see higher DPS with elf-bane 5 piece bonus always active, but you can still achieve good numbers by only having it on front-bar.

reiverx · July 2018

Is there a list of skills that Elf Bane works with or does it automatically work with anything fire related? I was sure when I tested it with Elemental Blockade the duration wasn't extended, but that was ages ago so I might be thinking of something else.

LinearParadox · July 2018

reiverx wrote: »

Is there a list of skills that Elf Bane works with or does it automatically work with anything fire related? I was sure when I tested it with Elemental Blockade the duration wasn't extended, but that was ages ago so I might be thinking of something else.

Unfortunately not that I've found, and you're likely correct; when I was testing I found that the set was kind of inconsistent with what it applied to and what it didn't.
For example it didn't buff Flames of Oblivion even though I'm fairly certain that's coded as a DoT. Wall of Elements might fall under that same issue

Fairly certain it buffed Ash Cloud (or whatever it's called) and that's a ground-targeted AoE DoT. But who knows with ZoS's spaghetti code

MashmalloMan · July 2018

LinearParadox wrote: »

reiverx wrote: »

Is there a list of skills that Elf Bane works with or does it automatically work with anything fire related? I was sure when I tested it with Elemental Blockade the duration wasn't extended, but that was ages ago so I might be thinking of something else.

Unfortunately not that I've found, and you're likely correct; when I was testing I found that the set was kind of inconsistent with what it applied to and what it didn't.
For example it didn't buff Flames of Oblivion even though I'm fairly certain that's coded as a DoT. Wall of Elements might fall under that same issue
Fairly certain it buffed Ash Cloud (or whatever it's called) and that's a ground-targeted AoE DoT. But who knows with ZoS's spaghetti code

Well would this help flames of oblivion? It shoots out the fireball every 5seconds, having the duration at 17seconds wouldn't let off another shot and I heard you shouldn't recast until it expires because it happens at 5/10/15.

LinearParadox · July 2018

Marshall1289 wrote: »

LinearParadox wrote: »

reiverx wrote: »

Is there a list of skills that Elf Bane works with or does it automatically work with anything fire related? I was sure when I tested it with Elemental Blockade the duration wasn't extended, but that was ages ago so I might be thinking of something else.

Unfortunately not that I've found, and you're likely correct; when I was testing I found that the set was kind of inconsistent with what it applied to and what it didn't.
For example it didn't buff Flames of Oblivion even though I'm fairly certain that's coded as a DoT. Wall of Elements might fall under that same issue
Fairly certain it buffed Ash Cloud (or whatever it's called) and that's a ground-targeted AoE DoT. But who knows with ZoS's spaghetti code

Well would this help flames of oblivion? It shoots out the fireball every 5seconds, having the duration at 17seconds wouldn't let off another shot and I heard you shouldn't recast until it expires because it happens at 5/10/15.

You're very much right, and that might be the case, but if I remember correctly I checked the "buff" duration on the char screen and it didn't change.
You have a good point though, since it only ticks every 5 seconds, it wouldn't matter even it did extend the duration.

I was just using that as an example though. I'm pretty sure there was another skill or two that didn't work, but that was just the first one that came to mind