Lightning Stave Heavy Attacks
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Does anyone know if the splash damage from a Lightning heavy attack procs conditions related to heavy attack damage. For example, Poisonous serpent:
(5 items) When you deal damage with a Light or Heavy Attack against an enemy who has a Poison Damage ability on them, you have a 50% chance to deal an additional 3400 Poison Damage. This effect can occur once every 1 second.
Trying to theory craft a paring of Poisonous serpent and Venomous Smite and want to be sure what I am trying will event work before wasting time.
(5 items) When you deal damage with a Light or Heavy Attack against an enemy who has a Poison Damage ability on them, you have a 50% chance to deal an additional 3400 Poison Damage. This effect can occur once every 1 second.
Trying to theory craft a paring of Poisonous serpent and Venomous Smite and want to be sure what I am trying will event work before wasting time.
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✭✭✭✭✭I believe the splash damage appears as "Tri-Focus" in the logs, the name of the passive that provides the splash damage. I have a feeling that the game therefore considers the peripheral mobs took damage from Tri-Focus, not Light/Heavy attack. But trying to logically deduce how things work in ESO can be problematic. You might need to try it on PTS or put together 5 random pieces with bad traits on production, just to test it.
As for Venomous Spite, I do not think the splash damage from lightning staff can crit. This is common with damage that gets mirrored or reflected. You do not want the underlying damage to crit and then the splash damage to crit, too. So it does not crit to ensure it matches the heavy attack damage that proc'ed it. Venomous Spite does already affect "nearby enemies", though. So if you crit the main target, the peripheral targets will probably get poisoned without need to worry about splash damage of heavy attack.0