Arcane Knight question

[Raven]

Does "Fire Magic Adept" allow "Enchant Blade Fire" to inflict burn? I'm trying to focus more on the melee side, and wonder if those are even worth picking up if I'm only using my blade skills/enchant weapon

[TheGreenGuy]

It does not because weapon skills don't have the elemental tags but slight spoiler for the NG+-Update:
I'll add an accessoir that also give weapon skills the elemental tags(Fire, Earth, Lightning, Ice) if they have a weapon enchantment.

[Raven]

Originally posted by TheGreenGuy:

It does not because weapon skills don't have the elemental tags but slight spoiler for the NG+-Update:
I'll add an accessoir that also give weapon skills the elemental tags(Fire, Earth, Lightning, Ice) if they have a weapon enchantment.

Thank you o/ okay, so no reason to get those skills for an arcane knight that uses the melee skills (for now) Appreciate you and love the game

[spectrefps]

Is this still the case (Arcane Knight's Enchant Blade skills not benefiting from the different elemental potency skills in the Arcane tree)? I see that the descriptions for the different Elemental Blades have an element tag now, but the elemental potency skills say "Spells", so I'm not sure if they apply to melee-based skills or buffs.

[Blood Flowers]

Potency affects the Enchant Blade skills IIRC.

[brown29knight]

Originally posted by spectrefps:

Is this still the case (Arcane Knight's Enchant Blade skills not benefiting from the different elemental potency skills in the Arcane tree)? I see that the descriptions for the different Elemental Blades have an element tag now, but the elemental potency skills say "Spells", so I'm not sure if they apply to melee-based skills or buffs.

The elemental blade skill itself IS an elemental spell. but if you enchant your sword with fire, as an example, your physical sword skills will do additional fire damage, but they are not fire attacks, and so do not benefit from fire potency.

There is a legendary accessory that changes this, making the sword skills gain the elemental tag when enchanted. With it equipped, the sword skill will ALSO be powered up by potency/can cause elemental effects.

[spectrefps]

Ah ok! So I need to find that accessory to get either the bonus damage from potency OR the chance to burn/shock/chill etc? So without that item (and just grabbing the potency skills on their own), the various elemental blades wouldn't proc their respective effects either?

[brown29knight]

Originally posted by spectrefps:

Ah ok! So I need to find that accessory to get either the bonus damage from potency OR the chance to burn/shock/chill etc? So without that item (and just grabbing the potency skills on their own), the various elemental blades wouldn't proc their respective effects either?

Enchant weapon adds 40% of MAB to your weapon damage as [element]

That 40% SHOULD benefit from potency as is, without the accessory.

You then use Power Slash, which deals 90%-130% PAB as physical damage.

Without the accessory, you deal [40% MAB * Potency] as elemental damage + 90%-130% PAB as physical damage.

With the accessory, if I'm understanding it correctly, you deal:
[40% MAB * Potency] + [90%-130% PAB * Potency] all as elemental damage, and can cause status effects.

So potency will also add to the main attack and cause status effects.