Division 2: Skill Damage On Status Effects

[@Raucey]

Status effects give both %skill damage (so additive with all your other skill damage sources) as well as %status duration (or doing more damage over time. So if your choosing between skill damage or status on an eclipse piece you always want status. But if you can have both (high end piece) then you will benefit from both. Generally speaking it's almost never worth putting status on weapons like Scorpio or Elmo, even though status effects do increase the durations. One big exception to this is kiting boomer. The increased duration can prevent Boomer from emping the turret before downing him again, and by hot swapping the Elmo or shocker punch on/off you can repeatedly down him in a single location until he's dead. What I'm talking about: imgur.com/gallery/BHLUwWK

[@DodRegnbue]

Cheers Raucey.

[@Maxxeemoose]

I went through so many videos and threads looking for this, thank you lol

[@rh6053]

I always thought that the fire sticky bomb was the outlier of getting skill damage added to its burn damage as the burn was tied to the initial damage where the flame chem launcher and stinger hive it effected the initial damage but not the status effect damage

[@DodRegnbue]

As long as what applies the status is a skill, Still damage does have a part to play.

[@rh6053]

@@DodRegnbue thanks for the reply I went in and checked for myself before seeing this and meant to reply that I was indeed very wrong in what I had said and thought about skill damage and status effects

[@nyquil99]

Capacitor stacks are also big for status effect builds.

[@PoopFactor4]

I mean... unless they apply to the ticks and not just the initial skill damage, not really. I'd do some testing, but I'm not interested in playing the division until the next update drops tbh.

[@DodRegnbue]

@@PoopFactor4 They do apply to the ticks as long as capacitor is stacked before the aplication.

[@helloeverybody7523]

If my drone shoots someone...is that considered status effect?

[@Troublesomme]

You use pestilence but you have a build?

[@slypperypete4636]

Does skill damage affect Indirect Transmission when the original damaging status effect was induced by a skill?

[@DodRegnbue]

Yes.

[@lockade_9958]

The awnser is no unless you have a full skill tier. I made an armor regan build with imperial dynasty and status effect rolled in everything. My fire burn went from 23,000 to 57,000 with status effect rolled on everything. I even have a video wearing exactly that and hitting expertise players hard. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYDdp56biM-Nm80si=RYWeY2_juLtWYUvV