Elemental Barrage bugged?

[Uzkin]

I took the mythic ability Elemental Barrage, and tried to trigger it with the orc double axe Tempest (its blades deal two different types of energy damage). However, I'm not seeing any damage from Elemental Barrage (screenshots below), is the ability bugged?

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[Razer]

Don't think sonic is considered an element. You have acid, fire, cold and electricity. Should be two of those.

[Uzkin]

The description of Elemental Barrage says: "Every time you deal energy damage...". Sonic is a type of energy damage. You can see this if you take a look at the different energy types covered by the spells Resist Energy or Protection from Energy; those are acid, cold, electricity, fire and sonic.

[Razer]

I looked up some topics online and it seems there are people that say it works fine with this weapon, but also people that are having the same issue as you. Weird.

[hilburnashua]

I have Woljif with elemental ascension fire and electricity and elemental barrage and using a Kurkri +3 with fire, electrical and acid damage and I can report that elemental barrage definitely works with that weapon, although it only seems to work once per blow, working on finding a good cold weapon to see if I can get it to trigger twice.

However, using scorching rays with the belt that adds unholy damage to any fire based spell does not cause Elemental Barrage to trigger.

Elemental Barrage does say it triggers off energy damage, it is not specific to elemental energy, but given the name and the lack of procing from Unholy and Holy damage. I think the ability only works with elemental energy damage. Sonic should trigger Elemental barrage, since it is listed in both Resist Element and Protection from Element as choices but maybe that part is bugged. It would be interesting to see if it would trigger off negative or positive damage, since negative energy is listed under Ascendant Elemental feat. I do have a Kukri with positive energy as a damage type so I will give it a chance and see what happens when I get a day off.

[vajrasatava]

Elemental barrage has many problems in its mechanics and description. Actually it has many bugs and often doesn't work as intended.

Well, from what i've experienced, unlike the description, elemental damages afflicted in different rounds don't count on proccing elemental barrage. I guess 'in 3 rounds' thing is only for spells, not enchanted elemental damages on melee weapons, but not sure.

Funny thing is, my Demon Mythic/14lv Scaled Fist/1lv Seeker protagonist who has Elemental Barrage mythic ability can actually kill anything with just 'ONE HIT PUNCH' on unfair. I mean, seriously with one hit, anything including bosses unless the attack misses.

Yes, of course it's a bug. Here's the detail. You have to acquire Elemental Barrage, of course. And take Demon mythic path(I don't know if other mythics also work). In my case, my Scaled Fist character has electrical fist activated with ki (draconic ability from the class) and elemental fist feat(it also has to be activated before attacking). this meets the condition of Elemental Barrage. But, you have to have a wizard(or a sorcerer) in your party to give him firebrand enchantment buff. In addition, you have to activate the Demonic Rage(or other demonic spell like 'flames of the abyss'), too.

Now you are ready to go. Just hit anything you want to destroy with your bare hand. Then, the Elemental Barrage damage(the divine damage), which is supposed to proc just once per attack, begins infinite loop of proccing until the target dies. Because the game recognizes the divine damage as 'another attack' from you, so the divine damage procs another Elemental Barrage, rinse and repeat. This process ends in the blink of an eye, needlessly to say.

I wish I could attach the screenshots here, but... i think you can understand me.

Anyway, i hope Owlcat just fix buggy mechanisms, soon.

P.S : I forgot to mention. You should not expect that Firebrand helps proccing Elemental Barrage in NORMAL circumstances, because the additional damage comes from the buffer(wizard or sorcerer), not attacker. But it seems that it does affect the infinite proccing I mentioned above in some ways, for sure.

P.S: I forgot one more thing to tell in advance. If you go with Demon mythic path deeper, you CANNOT further level up as a monk after chapter 3 because of conflict of alignment requirements. Do note this, and proceed with caution.