Storm Cloud + quality

Minor comment, this comes in two parts. one part question, one part comment.

1st: Does the quality bonus on storm cloud actually increase physical damage, or does the deals no physical damage portion of it over-ride this effect?

2nd: Why doesnt the quality bonus uniquely (it is a unique after all) increase the IAS or Lightning damage instead of physical given the nature of the bow.

given my assumed answers to both of those questions I would like to suggest that this bow have the quality effect modified to effect something of use.


***EDIT: For reference this is the non-quality version:

To be fair, increasing the quality of any high elemental damage weapon is only gonna increase its (likely) low phys damage.

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Wooser69 wrote:

To be fair, increasing the quality of any high elemental damage weapon is only gonna increase its (likely) low phys damage.

true but it still adds value to the item. Here you have a huge penalty to damage by not doing any physical, so why also have the quality be useless?

The "No Physical Damage" mod on Storm Cloud is a little ambiguous. It doesn't block other items from adding physical damage to the bow's elemental damage, it just indicates that this bow happens to lack physical damage. I agree with the OP that quality should be tweaked to produce more elemental damage on this unique.

I think it's OK for the quality bonus to do nothing (since that's what the quality bonus is meant to do on an item with 0 physical attack). However, it would be more aesthetically pleasing if it did boost the lightning dmg a little bit. It still wouldn't be OP.

The bow basically has a damage range of 0-0, that's all the "no physical damage" part means. If you Whetstone it, well, 20% of 0 is still 0 so it's not going to do anything. Tabula Rasa is exactly the same. It's a flavor thing and they decided to simply not show the non-existent stats.

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Racthoh wrote:

The bow basically has a damage range of 0-0, that's all the "no physical damage" part means. If you Whetstone it, well, 20% of 0 is still 0 so it's not going to do anything. Tabula Rasa is exactly the same. It's a flavor thing and they decided to simply not show the non-existent stats.

incorrect. I unless im drunk right now i am pretty sure i saw someone selling one that had a minor physical damage roll on it due to quality? But still dont know if the "deals no physical damage" over-rides that.

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sweetaction wrote:

I unless im drunk right now i am pretty sure i saw someone selling one that had a minor physical damage roll on it due to quality? But still dont know if the "deals no physical damage" over-rides that.

No, it does not override anything. It's just a bow that happens to have zero physical damage.

If you whet the bow to 20% it has 1-4 phys damage, I just did it right now.