Pugilism and Gust

So, what does Pugilism have to do with Gust? You would think nothing, right? Well, I discovered last night that raising Pugilism increases the stun duration for Gust. Getting Pugilism to 120 brought Gust's stun duration from 3.9 seconds to 8.3 seconds. I can't imaging that this is intended, so enjoy this undocumented feature while you can.

 

Pugilism affects all "fist"spells, so potentially Gust could be considered a fist spell, that's neat! Now I'm curious about the other trees.

 

That could be it. Since Gust does no damage then I guess the bonus would be stun duration.

 

this is great info thank you for sharing @Barugon and @Violet Ronso. i have been planning on trying out a monk-ish build and this info just pushes me further to try it. going to build up pugi on my mage alt as well!

 

I immediately trained Pugilism from 0 to 120 after reading this, and will now see if what the effect is on my earth fist

Edit: Stone Fist damage seems to be up 5-10% although it's hard to tell after such a short time. Still a great tip!

 

similar i went from 101 to 140 last night. my gust stun rose about 1 second and all my fist damage went up a couple. i concur a great tip!

 

Any idea whether the improvements carry through to combos? I use splintering strike a lot on my tanky character

 

How did you see these numbers, @Barugon ?

 

I'm not a specialist by any means, but how difficult is it to include that absolutely relevant piece of information in the skills tooltip??

 

I was playing offline and my Gust stun duration was 12.7 seconds. I really wanted to find out what was making it so great so that I could get some of that goodness into my online character. I first set all my skills in offline to what they are in online and then started raising whole trees to 200 until I discovered that it was something in the Subterfuge tree, then I lowered individual skills until I found that the contributor was Pugilism. After that, I immediately raised Pugilism for my online character to 120 and his Gust stun duration increased to 8.3 seconds (from 3.9 seconds with zero Pugilism).

{edit] I actually started off by tweaking skills in the Air tree but neither the skills nor the attunement seemed to have a big impact on the stun duration of Gust. That's when I started searching outside the Air tree.

 

That certainly would be nice.

 

hmm now I need to retrain this up to test the fist two death skills to see if any affect good find @Barugon