Triggering Jolt

[Hebereke]

I'm trying to complete the warlock quest "taming the storm", which revolves around his arc subclass.
I'm supposed to trigger Jolt in order to complete the quest, but very FEW skills trigger Jolt, and even when they're supposed to trigger, sometimes they don't.
This quest is a pain in the ass.
I have "Spark of shock", which makes my grenades Jolt. However, they don't always trigger this, dunno why.
Also I have "Lightning surge", which lets me blink while gliding if I use my charged melee, jolting enemies. However, this never happens and I end just doing a normal charged melee, What am I doing wrong?

[PhellAsleep]

Maybe it's the grenade you're using? You can also try getting a weapon with Volt Shot. Iron Banner is currently active and the AR from there can roll with Volt Shot.

[Kiochy]

once the target is jolted (through your grenade for exemple) it needs further damage to trigger the jolt (which will electrocute the jolted target and create chains to all nearby enemies).

Lightning surge requires you to sprint, slide and melee during the slide to activate it. I recommend using the basic "chain lightning" melee instead if your goal is to jolt more enemies for your quest: chain lightning jolts the first target hit, deals less damage and is thus less likely to kill the target (allowing you to then deal the required damage to trigger the jolt) and is easier to handle.

[Kylito]

For lightning surge to activate you have to Sprint, Slide, then while in the slide activate the charged melee.

Once you apply jolt to a target (ideally one with a lot of health) you activate jolt by continuing to damage the already jolted target.

[lockwoodx]

Originally posted by bag of plums:

if the grenade kills something before you can proc the jolt debuff it won't count. i had the same issue on my void quest for weaken, my grenades just killed everything before they even applied the debuff for my quest

this ^

[Hebereke]

Grenades instakill everything so I guess that's why I'm not getting any targets.
♥♥♥♥, really anything that triggers Jolt instakills everything.
Somehow I managed to finally get it to 100% but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ man.

Also, still can't get Lightning surge to work. Only managed it once. I'm sprinting, gliding, then meleeing. Don't know wtf am I doing wrong.

[Kylito]

Originally posted by Hebereke:

Grenades instakill everything so I guess that's why I'm not getting any targets.
♥♥♥♥, really anything that triggers Jolt instakills everything.
Somehow I managed to finally get it to 100% but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ man.

Also, still can't get Lightning surge to work. Only managed it once. I'm sprinting, gliding, then meleeing. Don't know wtf am I doing wrong.

Sprint, SLIDE then powered melee. Gliding is when you double jump into the air, Sliding is when you crouch while sprinting.

[Hebereke]

Originally posted by Kylito:

Originally posted by Hebereke:

Grenades instakill everything so I guess that's why I'm not getting any targets.
♥♥♥♥, really anything that triggers Jolt instakills everything.
Somehow I managed to finally get it to 100% but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ man.

Also, still can't get Lightning surge to work. Only managed it once. I'm sprinting, gliding, then meleeing. Don't know wtf am I doing wrong.

Sprint, SLIDE then powered melee. Gliding is when you double jump into the air, Sliding is when you crouch while sprinting.

oh boy I'm super retarded
thanks a lot man, will try it next time