[Referred to AskaDev] Poison Jewel not increasing debuff from festering poison

03/21/2022 16:32
Title: Poison Jewel not increasing debuff from festering poison
Reproduction Rate: 100%
Blocker? No
Details: Poison Jewel not increasing debuff from festering poison
Steps to Reproduce: Put on poison jewel equipment, use festering poison, hit something. Debuff stays at 15%.
User Specs:
OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz (16) System RAM: 32694
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU RAM: 10077
SotA.Win.64.1516.Date.03.17.22
Area: BasementSceneDungeonCity_Arena
Area Display Name: City Stone Arena Basement
Loc: (32.4, 5.0, 14.7)
Debug: QmFzZW1lbnRTY2VuZUR1bmdlb25DaXR5X0FyZW5hfHwoMzIuMzYxLCA1LjAyOSwgMTQuNjY3KXwoMCwgLTAuMDA0LCAwLCAxKXwtMC40MjQ3MzAyfDE1LjU3OTQ3fDExLjYyNzU1

 

Festering Death is interesting. No Poison Effectiveness Bonus modifiers affect its Debuff potency period, including that from weapons. My assumption has always been it was As Designed because of how powerful Festering Death poison would be if this weren't the case; a dual dagger build would be able to hit -90% healing debuff just off the blades themselves and a 3 stack of Festering. Of course, this cuts both ways and Festering Death poison is just as powerful on a -25% Poison Effectiveness hammer or a pair of wands as anything else.

If it turns out this actually is a bug it would be a pretty big shift in the power/dynamics of various builds.

Chaotic Corruption has never scaled either as I recall, not even the "base" poison damage (which is actually Poison/Chaos damage for this potion). This I think is unique, as the base damage for even Festering Death scales, just not the healing modifier.

The -10 Moon Attunement and -10 Combat Dodge Modifier stats on Poison Potion, Shadow don't scale with Poison Effectiveness Bonus either. The actual poison damage does.

Happy to split this stuff off into separate bug reports or whatever as needed, just wanted to add a little info in case it was helpful.

(Edit for better info)

 

I was able to find the materials and recipe to craft a ring with an imbued Jewel of Poison.

I used the /stats command and compared with and without the ring equipped:

Without: PoisonEffectivenessBonus: 0
With: PoisonEffectivenessBonus: 0.15

.. so it seems like the Jewel is doing something.

I tested with dual daggers and the ring, and my stat was:
PoisonEffectivenessBonus: 1.15

I guess the question here would be .. what exactly does or should poison effectiveness be doing? I didn't see it doing anything obvious with regular poison or festering.

I would suggest using the "askadev" option in Universal chat, to get some insight from Chris.