Will Reflected Hits use an Impale stack?
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Impale states that:
"When a hit applies impale to a target, 10% of that hit's physical damage is recorded before any damage mitigation is applied. Impale deals the recorded damage to that target each time it is hit...impale lasts for five hits." reflect states that: Although reflected damage hits, it intentionally doesn't trigger MOST on/when hit effects. say I have hit an enemy to impale it only once and I have a belt with "reflects 100 physical damage to melee attackers" My question is am I accidently using one of my five Impale stacks when I unintentionally take a melee hit and reflect that 100 phys? Edit for clarification: is the 100 phys reflected back to the enemy after hitting me going to trigger the impale debuff and make them take an additional 10% reflected damage from the hit that impaled it? so does reflect activate the recorded damage from impale? Last edited by Violent_Red#1912 on Mar 25, 2022, 12:53:22 PM Last bumped on Jul 27, 2024, 3:04:37 PM
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Impale is applied to the enemy, not you. you can't remove a stack without hitting something that's already been impaled. hitting yourself does nothing as you are not impaled.
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"You are misunderstanding the question. The mod is about reflecting damage to attackers when they hit you, not about taking reflected damage when you do something (e.g. from Hiltless). The enemies will take a hit dealing reflected damage. |
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Finally got around to testing this.
in short DOES NOT WORK. enemies cannot trigger any impale debuff applied to them by taking reflected damage. testing materials -Tabula Rasa -basic one handed sword -crown of thorns -exactly 460-516 in melee damage via heavy strike -100% chance to Impale -Guard captain (City of Sarn) -no other gear tree -resolute technique (to ensure that reflected damage cannot be evaded) -spiked bulwark (for benchmark) Testing procedure allocated spiked bulwark for a control. As expected for every melee hit received the guard captain was hit for 55 reflected damage (5dam from crown of thorns reflect + 50dam from spiked bulwark) and made a visible reduction to the captains health on the top health bar. Then unallocated spiked bulwark. Upon impaling the captain sadly there was no additional damage from the impale debuff being activated by the 5 reflected damage from crown of thorns. If the impale debuff triggered off of reflected hits the damage should have been similar to the spiked bulwark control test. 10% of heavy strikes 460-516 is 46-51 applied through impales debuff damage +5 for crowns reflect totaling 51-56 This result is a shame because I was cooking up a reflect build that would have taken advantage of this interaction. Not a practical build, but funny. |
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" Thank you for testing. You can use Tempest Shield btw, it does work (on block ofc). |
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