Adds X weapon and spell damage

Zama666 · August 16

Hello,
When you wear a set that add X number of weapon and spell damage, that only applies to direct attacks?
Not AOE?

For Biting Jabs, there are 3 attacks 1 on the target 2 to others nearby, is that damage on all 3 attacks?

Tankz,

Z

Sluggy · August 16

Rather than giving you the answer, I'll take the Socratic approach and give you the tools.

Check your tooltips.

EDIT:
Also, for clarity: AoE and Direct Damage are not mutually exclusive. My guess is that you're specifically referring to Ground Effect Aoe though... which still works with the above method as well as many other methods of testing.

Oblivion_Protocol · August 16

I will give you the answer because Socrates was an [snip] who liked providing complicated answers for simple questions, lol.

Your weapon and spell damage applies to all damage that scales off of it. That includes direct and AoE damage. For abilities like Jabs, each attack gets that weapon and spell damage value separately.

[edited for profanity bypass]

Zodiarkslayer · August 16

Yes of course your maximun weapon or spell damage is used in every calculation for ability scaling and damage. As is MaxStat.
Abilities in ESO have a dual scaling method between MaxStat and MaxDamage. Both have multipliers for how much they contribute. They range from 0.02 to 0.05 and 0.2 to 0.5 respectively.
For Puncturing Sweeps first hit the formula is:
=0.039598 MaxStat + 0.41578 MaxDamage

Only after that first calculation all the damage multipliers come into the equation. In Puncturing Sweeps case it is usually so.ething like this:
Modifiers: 6% DirectDamage + 15% Channel + 10% Damage + 6% AOE

I use UESP.NET for all these technical informations on ESO.