Injection

[Sova]

I've been playing for a while with a Bombardier (Archery/Alchemy) and i have one question regarding this skill.
It does 56 piercing damage with 6/6 skill points invested.
I've been trying by some means to up that damage using +%piercing damage modifiers on various items (including arm gear, head gear, weapons) but nothing seems to work.
I tried the passive sharp eye skill in archery but that didn't work either.
Is this intentional or perhaps a bug?

[The Rock-man]

Originally Posted by Sova

I've been playing for a while with a Bombardier (Archery/Alchemy) and i have one question regarding this skill.
It does 56 piercing damage with 6/6 skill points invested.
I've been trying by some means to up that damage using +%piercing damage modifiers on various items (including arm gear, head gear, weapons) but nothing seems to work.
I tried the passive sharp eye skill in archery but that didn't work either.
Is this intentional or perhaps a bug?

What numbers are you going by? If your going by the numbers on the skill info this is the base damage for that skill and is not changed by anything. To see what damage your really doing you really need the show all damage mod, if your all ready using this then its really is a bug.

[Sova]

Yes, I'm using the show all damage mod.
After some more testing I've found out one more thing.
The skill bowstring actually does increase the damage of injection by %.
I put 1 point in bowstring (6% dmg increase) and i see 59 damage.
I guess this should go into the bug report part of the forum.

[The Rock-man]

It's a strange bug then as all those should boost it (not bowstring).
The bug might be that it not really doing piercing damage? (As then bowstring can still boost it by ~5% every so often).
Anyway Bowstring shouldn't boost it as that meant to be an active attack skill.

[Viper_Sweden]

Try Signal of Attack, that should boost it quite noticeably...

[The Rock-man]

Viper Sweden since he saying Sharp Eye dont boost it nor +% pierce on items I doubt that Signal of Attack will have any effect.

I expect it will be found that its not doing piercing damage but some other type like physical or poison +the DOT.

[Viper_Sweden]

Sharp Eye only works with bows but Signal of Attack seem to be more universal, hence my suggestion to use it.

[Sova]

Ok, I just tried max Signal of attack and just as i expected it didn't do anything.

[The Rock-man]

Viper Sweden any +% works for all skills & all attacks as long as it up and that damage is delt Sharp Eye is not an attack skill and is all ways on so should work. Theres clearly a bug with bowstring as that an attack but its boost damage of injection, if you read posts properly you see that other +% pierce dont work.

[I_Raps]

I don't know what's wrong with Injection - if there's anything wrong; this kind of aura may simply be unaffected by %damage boosts.

But I'm pretty sure Bowstring has nothing to do with it.
Here's level 1 Injection and level 10 Injection with Bowstring (maxed) and level 10 Injection without Bowstring:



Those numbers are straight out of the dbr. The thing is, they shouldn't be - Sharp Eye and Signal of Attack should be boosting them.