Boons affecting "attack"

[onomastikon]

Do boons which affect the "attack" (first boon slot) also affect attacks made while dashing ("dash-attack") or must one be standing still to have the "attack" boon proc?
thank you

[ser5lexx]

I guess, dash attack inherits all the effects of a regular attack: if I have lord's Drunkard boons on my primary attack, I'm able to poison enemies when dash-attacking. An with the bow, for example, the dash-attack is simply the same regular attack, but charges faster and does less damage.

[Gregor]

They do.(Or else I'm just horrible observing.)

There are boons which alter the behavior of dash attacks specifically though.

[Tiank]

The effect (status curse like Hangover or Weak) from attack boon is applied but the damage is not.

[onomastikon]

Originally posted by Tiank:

The effect (status curse like Hangover or Weak) from attack boon is applied but the damage is not.

I'm sorry, can you please elaborate? Do you mean damage multipliers are not? Or how is damage not applied?

[Tiank]

If Attack boon adds +x% damage and status effect, when you do dash-attack only that status effect will be applied, but that damage boost won't. I think only Artemis' dash boon adds bonus damage to dash attacks.

[onomastikon]

That's good to know, thanks

[TommyEV]

Originally posted by Tiank:

If Attack boon adds +x% damage and status effect, when you do dash-attack only that status effect will be applied, but that damage boost won't. I think only Artemis' dash boon adds bonus damage to dash attacks.

Are you sure? I havent double guessed it before but considering we sometimes have more than 100% on attack, I suppose I'd have really noticed that dash attacks do only half the damage.

[Tiank]

Haven't properly tested it tbh, just an observation. And it depends on the weapon, I guess, as with some of them the difference is not going to be that noticeable, especially if you don't pay attention to the values...

[onomastikon]

How would one test this other than squint hard at those little popup numbers on screen? I'm not good enough at this game to do that.

[TommyEV]

Originally posted by onomastikon:

How would one test this other than squint hard at those little popup numbers on screen? I'm not good enough at this game to do that.

Cmon now, it has taken me literally 30 seconds to test it. Yes, the percentage DOES affect the dash attack.

PIck the rail, test it without boons. A shot does 10, a shot after a dash does 10. I pick an Aphoridte with +70%. Now a normal shot does 17 and a dash shot does 17.

HOWEVER, one thing that may have confused you is that for example the dash attack with the bow naturally does less damage than a regular attack, to compensate for being faster to charge. So if you ever feel like the bow's dash attack does less damage, it's the way it works and now the boons.

[Tiank]

Huh, it does affect dash-attack as well, never noticed it... Sorry for the confusion and unconfirmed info from my part.

[TommyEV]

Originally posted by Tiank:

Huh, it does affect dash-attack as well, never noticed it... Sorry for the confusion and unconfirmed info from my part.

It's all good, we are all trying to help!

[onomastikon]

Thank you

[Songbird]

To add to this: yes, attack boons affect your dash attack, and Artemis' dash attack boon gives an additional additive damage increase on top of that. However, hammers don't all function the same way. Some affect your dash attack and some do not, and it's generally not explicitly stated. For example, Cursed Slash and Shadow Slash do not work on dash attacks while Hoarding Slash and Piercing Wave do, even though they all just say "Your Attack...".

[onomastikon]

Hmmm thanks, that's unfortunate.