Morvan wrote: »

I don't think the AoE portion of diseased also apply diseased, that's very likely intended. That's why Force Pulse isn't synergizing in the way you're thinking. Or you'd have a cascade effect where diseased would just jump from target to target. lol

Which would be cool and thematic for Disease to spread... but also pretty problematic in the current meta.

Maybe if the Direct Damage component was removed and the Defile simply spread from target to target. That would be neat!

IIRC, though, there's an internal cooldown on the Diseased splash damage proc.

But I saw some status effect on enemies around diseased target after initial hit on 2 or 4 seconds timer while their health seemed barely touched. Let me capturing pic later..

What about Dragon's set and also Burning Light? LA + status effect + Pulse 3 damages + 3 status effects should proc Burning Light every 2 seconds, but clearly not.

found the problem, if combat metrics is not wrong:




So the debuffs were lost almost instantly, not on 4 sec timer, despite UI said otherwise (often, not always) - Minor Defile is often kept on UI, but other debuffs vanished instantly


and confirmed Escalating Runeblades has no effect whatsoever.


edit: logs are misleading because debuffs were supposed to be lost when they're dead, and none lasted one shot. But it's confirmed that minor defile did spread, but on very short timer (not 4s) and didn't trigger pulse force at all, at least not most of time.

I’m using those sets. Draugkin and threads of war. Good all round build even PvP and pve.

3 heavy 3 light 1 med

I’m doing a bigger rotation Ele sus, crystal weapon, force pulse all with la weaving.

Gets 80k on trial dummy. Also have merciless resolve front bar. Trying Ethern heart, assasination, dark magic for it currently.

I think the aoe disease damage can apply disease, but its not a guaranteed spread and the chance is probably low. As a fellow status effect guy, i suggest you work in ele sus into your build, unless you have the Asylum staff, it will be much more consistent with applying status effects because it will always happen without any gear. Added bonus, it doesn't cost resources.

First let's get your diseased chance from threads of war. The set applies to light attacks, it shouldn't apply to enchantments. It's 1000% on your weapons native damage. As you are using an enchant to proc it, its likely not helping you.

There is also a common misconception with status effects. I've found most people don't really understand how they work for some reason. Status effects last 4 seconds. If you apply a status effect that is already on a target it will both refresh its duration and proc its initial damage. Don't believe me? go find a mob and spam ele sus on them.

Although Draugrkin is great, theres another set that is entirely slept on for status effect builds. Serpents disdain. Draugrkin will give you more burst damage and is nice because it applies to all damage types but in a scenario where fights last longer than 20-45 seconds, Serpents disdain will do more damage. This is because procing poison and bleed for 20 seconds does a ton of damage. This will surpass Draugrkins damage. If you have like 5 non status effect dots on someone Draugrkin might pull ahead but serpents disdain is better than draugrkin for damage of status effects.

To help put this in perspective, your force pulse (pulse is great btw im not hating on pulse) at best procs the burning status effect for 4 seconds. You get 4 ticks of Draugrkin on the fire damage. If you use Serpents disdain and cast ele sus, you just added a burning dot that lasts 50 seconds for 50 ticks of fire damage. With the right build you can keep up all status effects indefinitely. The great thing is you can have both of these sets at once.