How does Chain Skewer work exactly?

[MF Jamal]

The description of the upgrade is as followed: "Your Special hits up to 7 does, dealing +30% base damage for each." This hammer upgrade is for the spear.

Would this mean that my special would do 30% base damage for every enemy it hits? This sounds incredibly weak. This is what I initially thought the upgrade does but later on I questioned myself because of the + in the description.

Perhaps it hits for 100% base damage to the first enemy, increasing it's damage by +30% for every additional enemy it hits up to 6 other enemies it hits, dealing 280% base damage on the last enemy it bounces to? If this is the case, would this mean that it can deal more than 280% base damage as it possible to hit more than 7 enemies in total upon retrieval of the spear.

Or are both of these explanations wrong and it works in a slightly different way? Could someone help me understand this upgrade as I have failed to find an explanation to this description on both the subreddit and the Hades wiki page.

Thanks in advance.

[RCMidas]

I can half answer this - it'll do a minimum of 30% extra damage to each target, but I don't think it is a stacking buff. The easiest way to test this is to get the upgrade, turn on damage numbers, and fire it off a few times in a high HP environment like Elysium.

[KriKitBoNeZ]

引用自 RCMidas：

I can half answer this - it'll do a minimum of 30% extra damage to each target, but I don't think it is a stacking buff. The easiest way to test this is to get the upgrade, turn on damage numbers, and fire it off a few times in a high HP environment like Elysium.

I know you have clearly said you are not an expert on this, but I am also curious because I thought things stacked.

just an edit because I may have misunderstood the stuff at hand.

[RCMidas]

Well, multiple different sources of +% damage will certainly stack, but English is one of the most irritating languages when it comes to clarity in this sort of thing. Does "each" mean "does +% damage to all enemies" or "does +% damage to an enemy and then more +% damage to the next"? Both interpretations are correct.

As an counter-example, a description might be "+% damage to the first enemy, then normal damage to each one afterwards". Since the developers are pretty good about this sort of thing, my personal suspicion is that because of how they have worded everything else across the game, it looks like it's a standard +% damage across the board.

Otherwise it might read "+% damage to the first enemy, +2x% damage to the second enemy, etc".

[LT2483]

I'm pretty sure it hits an enemy, doing normal damage, then attempts to hit up to 7 more enemies, doing +30% more damage to each one - so (ignoring other damage buffs) first regular hit is 100%, then first bounce hit is 130%, then 2nd bounce hit is 160%, and so on. The retrieval does normal damage and doesn't bounce.