Impale

With the impale banner, i have a 20% chance to apply impale, but it doesnt work at all. Even with the impale gem with 40% impale chance impale does not get applied to enemies.

https://youtu.be/V6uZV-lmoR8

Impale only get's applied by physical damage.

If you use Avatar of Fire or convert all your damage to elemental, it will not work.

I'm doing physical damage, i have just tested 3 skills:

Doublestrike: Works fine with impake
Shattering Steel: No impale
Lancing Steel: No Impale
Cycone: no Impale
Leapslam: Yes Impale

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Fumina wrote:

I'm doing physical damage, i have just tested 3 skills:

Doublestrike: Works fine with impake
Shattering Steel: No impale
Lancing Steel: No Impale
Cycone: no Impale
Leapslam: Yes Impale

That's just impossible, because the main projectile of Lancing Steel has a 100% chance to impale, even without Banner and stuff.
You sure you didn't trigger it?

On larger Mobs you can see the effect queit good (metally shine on them with spikes sticking in them).

If you think it's bugged for some reason, report the bug.

i have added a Video in first post.

Thanks for the vid and hovering over your tooltipp.

You have 3-7 phys damage on Lancing Steel. Impale stores 10% of the damage, that would be 0.3 to 0.7. That's less than 1 damage --> no Impale because it deals no damage.

You dual Strike is leveled, therefore has more base damage and is able to aplly tiny itzy bitzy weeny impales.

Solution: Ditch your Elemental Damage and get pure phys if you want to use impale!

Further: you weapon says "No physical damage". So you can only get some damage from flat mods on rings ect.
As I said: ditch Ele damage and get phys, than it will work just fine.

This is the reason? My physical damage is too low to apply Impale.
Nice to know, thank you very much.

Additional Question, does my damage has to after or before armor minimum of 10 damage?

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Fumina wrote:

Additional Question, does my damage has to after or before armor minimum of 10 damage?

That's a wierd question.
10 Damage would result in a 1 Damage Impale. If you want to use Impale, go pure phys, everything else is pointless.

But to answer your question: Imapale is calculated before Mitigation takes place. So 10-11 phys damage would in theory be enough.

thank you very much, i need one more level to get my new weapon with more physical damage.

Btw i go impale because of banners fortify effect bonus that should apply all the time.