Warden's Scorch/Deep Fissure vs. Nerien'eth monster set. What is direct damage and what is not?

Ermiq · November 2018

It looks like Nerien'eth monster set (which should proc with direct damage abilities) doesn't proc with Scorch/Deep Fissure.
At the same time, Master-At-Arms star in champion points (which increases direct damage abilities' damage) affects Scorch/Deep Fissure.

So, what's going on? Is the Scorch/Deep Fissure a direct damage ability or not? Is Nerien'eth set broken or not?

IZZEFlameLash · November 2018

Eremith wrote: »

It looks like Velidreth monster set (which should proc with direct damage abilities) doesn't proc with Scorch/Deep Fissure.
At the same time, Master-At-Arms star in champion points (which increases direct damage abilities' damage) affects Scorch/Deep Fissure.

So, what's going on? Is the Scorch/Deep Fissure a direct damage ability or not? Is Velidreth set broken or not?

It's a typical case of ZOS not properly handling their own changes. Velidreth should proc but it doesn't. It's a glitch. I mean, Velidreth is a set that used to proc almost on cooldown when using a siege before (lol).

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO · November 2018

Velidreth is all damaging sources not just direct damage, see here-

. When you deal damage, you have a 20% chance to spawn 3 disease spores in front of you after 1 second that deal 120-10320 Disease damage to the first enemy they hit. This effect can occur once every 9 seconds.

So it ought to proc on everything that does damage, 20% of the time.

Ermiq · November 2018

@IZZEFlameLash , @Lightspeedflashb14_ESO

Oh, guys, sorry. It's not Velidreth, it's Nerien'eth.

_Ahala_ · November 2018

Deep Fissure procs Skoria and yet scales off of Master of Arms... In short it’s a direct damage skill that procs damage over time based sets rather than direct damage based sets

Ermiq · November 2018

_Ahala_ wrote: »

Deep Fissure procs Skoria and yet scales off of Master of Arms... In short it’s a direct damage skill that procs damage over time based sets rather than direct damage based sets

So, does it work as intended? Is Scorth made as exception by design?

Gargath · November 2018

Nerien'eth in general is a bad set imho, 2 seconds delay in dealing damage means that most mobs will leave the area of effect in pve before it explodes. I was testing it on Gold Coast and they were just running away from the crystal, it was so annoying

. Very rare proc from direct damage was another issue. For me the sets based on aoe/dot damage are way better.