Lightning/inferno stuff passive (+10% aoe/st dmg) not affecting Arcanist abilities?

Kharnamantic · June 2023

Lightning destruction staves have a passive that give +10% damage to AOE abilities. I tested out Fatecarver (the AOE channel damage beam) on my Arcanist, and the tooltip doesn't change when I buy the passive. Neither do the tooltips on the doritos 3rd cast AOE or the tentacle AOE, or any Arcanist abilities.

I tried with inferno staff that gives +10% to single target abilities. Again I didn't see damage tooltips change on Arcanist abilities that I'd expect to be classified as single target.

Anyone know what's going on?

merpins · June 2023

A bug, probably. Hopefully it gets resolved if this is correct, since I intended to do a lightning staff arcanist dps.

MudcrabAttack · June 2023

Have you tried hitting a target dummy, the damage scaled up the last time I checked

ADarklore · June 2023

Kharnamantic wrote: »

Lightning destruction staves have a passive that give +10% damage to AOE abilities. I tested out Fatecarver (the AOE channel damage beam) on my Arcanist, and the tooltip doesn't change when I buy the passive. Neither do the tooltips on the doritos 3rd cast AOE or the tentacle AOE, or any Arcanist abilities.

I tried with inferno staff that gives +10% to single target abilities. Again I didn't see damage tooltips change on Arcanist abilities that I'd expect to be classified as single target.

Anyone know what's going on?

Does it change when you do this with other classes?? I'm just wondering if it's a UI error, consider we already have the food bug UI error, perhaps there are other UI errors as well.

If the tooltip changes for other classes but not for Arcanist, then I'd report it in the BUG report section.

tenryuta · June 2023

so working as intended, since no other weapon effects non-weapon skills?(wp/sp/cr indirectly effect everything with raw stats on dw/gs passives, which tops out at 300~ which is 5% for mid-high chars, staves should not be exceeding 5% indirect)

Uvi_AUT · June 2023

Kharnamantic wrote: »

Lightning destruction staves have a passive that give +10% damage to AOE abilities. I tested out Fatecarver (the AOE channel damage beam) on my Arcanist, and the tooltip doesn't change when I buy the passive. Neither do the tooltips on the doritos 3rd cast AOE or the tentacle AOE, or any Arcanist abilities.

I tried with inferno staff that gives +10% to single target abilities. Again I didn't see damage tooltips change on Arcanist abilities that I'd expect to be classified as single target.

Anyone know what's going on?

Wasnt that always the case? AoEpassive is only for the Destruction-AoEskills.

CameraBeardThePirate · June 2023

Uvi_AUT wrote: »

Kharnamantic wrote: »

Lightning destruction staves have a passive that give +10% damage to AOE abilities. I tested out Fatecarver (the AOE channel damage beam) on my Arcanist, and the tooltip doesn't change when I buy the passive. Neither do the tooltips on the doritos 3rd cast AOE or the tentacle AOE, or any Arcanist abilities.

I tried with inferno staff that gives +10% to single target abilities. Again I didn't see damage tooltips change on Arcanist abilities that I'd expect to be classified as single target.

Anyone know what's going on?

Wasnt that always the case? AoEpassive is only for the Destruction-AoEskills.

Incorrect. That destro passive applies to all abilities - if you're running inferno, ALL single target abilities should deal more damage. If you're running lightning staff, ALL AoE abilities should deal more damage.