Blade trap with Nightblade

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corvoasgard wrote:

Hello everybody!

I was studying for a possible league starter and I noticed that all the properties of the nightblade are applicable to Blade Trap, however when the trap crits the elusive proc it doesn't happen. Could this be a possible bug?
Blade Trap has an Attack skill tag, applies all the effects of your weapon, wasn't the elusive supposed to happen?

Thank you for everyone's attention and collaboration!

edit; For additional information, if you activate the elusive externally (Withering Step), the critical multiplier line applies to the blade trap.

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Jadian wrote:

Traps use your combat stats for their attack/spell used. I'm not sure that elusive from e.g. Withering Step should work for it since the line says "Elusive from Supported Skills..."; that might be a bug.

However, the key point here is that you never hit, you never crit, you never gain Elusive from Nightblade Support. Your trap might be able to gain Elusive (if it's not destroyed from being triggered), but considering they can't move...they might not be able to gain Elusive unless they're able to avoid taking damage.

Even if they can gain Elusive, they wouldn't benefit from Nightblade's crit effects while Elusive since they use your combat stats--the trap being Elusive doesn't increase your crit chance/multiplier.

Not all effects being passed on to the player is intentional and documented behavior for other mechanics, and works both for and against the player. While this case works to the player's disadvantage, as does not being able to leech from trap damage, some effects work to the player's advantage:

Damage is reflected to the trap, not to the player
Some effects, like boot enchantments, give bonuses if you haven't crit/killed recently