Thanks for all the help recently – one more q., please: What counts as an ‘attack’ to trigger a devotion? For example, if I hit enemies with the radius effect of Explosive strike, does that count? What about Olexra’s Flash Freeze? Curse of Frailty? Sigil of Consumption?
Thanks!
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Remember to set the Celestial Power to the skill. Then when you use the skill, it will have its chance to proc.
See the Game Guide, Devotion section, specifically Celestial Powers
Thanks. I didn’t put the question v. well – I was really asking whether secondary and DoT effects could trigger devotion skills. (And OFF confuses me because I don’t seem to be able to socket anything into it.)
The reason I asked is that I spotted a few skills w/o any cooldown, namely eldritch fire, wendigo’s mark and aetherfire, and I wanted to see whether I could get them to proc really fast by attaching them to an appropriate skill.
Wendigo’s mark is a sort of DoT, so there is no point in proc’ing it more than once per duration per target.
Ah – ok. But eldritch fire and aetherfire would work? E.g. if I stack them on sigil of C or something else that hits a lot of enemies? [Failing that I guess I could use Lightning nova or Callidor’s.]
‘Attack’ is anything that does damage to a target. So yes, dots can proc them.
I personally have had multiple procs of a devotion skill from casting one dot on a target.
Thanks!
One last Q. – is OFF for some weird reason not considered an attack [for devotion purposes] even though it does damage?
Calidor’s should be a good proc machine. I like eldritch fire better than aetherfire, but that’s just me - test it out, no worries you can respec devotion points.
OFF is probably considered a debuff (i guess for balancing reasons, since it hits every mob on the screen, when maxed).
OFF is considered a debuff; so, unfortunately, it will not proc “on attack” devotions.
It’s definitely not a balancing thing (in response to the “hits everything on screen”) as it used to not do this, I think it’s just the way they have to have it function because of the -%Fire Resistance. How they decide what is considered a debuff versus an attack is beyond me. Flashbang, which serves no direct offensive purpose and has multiple types of debuffs, is considered an attack.
I’m sure they have some type of reasoning, I just haven’t bothered to search for it in the last 2 years.
Actually, lightning nova is probably as good as callidor’s and frees me up to take any masteries. I’m a bit tired of playing with fire as my last build was mainly demolitionist, so Eldritch Fire + Occultist + something. [Odd that Chaos, Aether only seem to have one mastery boosting them each.]
Flashbang, which serves no direct offensive purpose and has multiple types of debuffs, is considered an attack.
Hmmm… that might be fun to proc. things off too!