Facesum: "Base attack propagates burn"

[Kappieri]

What does this mean? It's a weapon for Maelle, and i assumed "propagate burn" means to trigger it and deal damage based on the current number of burn stacks, but i can confirm that this is not the case... it also doesn't apply any burn stacks either, so what am I missing?

The only thing I can think is that it ONLY triggers burn stacks that Maelle applied herself? But that seems silly, since it's doesn't distinguish between who applied which burn stacks on the enemy. My plan was to have Verso apply like 400 stacks then have Maelle hit them with her Facesum and trigger the burn damage at least once (hopefully 3 times with combo attack 1 and 2)

[jep1000]

Haven't seen this exact effect myself, but when I've seen "Propagate" described in other skills/effects it usually means the effect is being duplicated to the rest of the enemy members.

Try it in an encounter with multiple enemies, then hit an enemy with existing burning stacks and see if it gets applied to all enemies

[Illusion of Progress]

A meaning for propagate is to spread.

How exactly it works isn't something I'm sure of. As suggested in the reply above, experimentation should answer this if you don't want to wait for someone who knows to reply.

Try basic attacking an enemy without burn stacks while another enemy does have burn stacks and see what happens.

Do the opposite and basic attack an enemy with burn stacks where other enemies have no burn stacks and see what happens.

My guess is that one of the two cases, it might spread stacks.

[Schalimah]

There are other things in the game that propagate burn or fortell.
Basically hitting a target that has burn stacks on it with that weapons base attack will apply the same amount of burn stacks to all other enemies on the field.
At least this is how it should work.
I never used it, so I cant tell if it actually does it.
It wouldn't be the only bugged weapon perk.