Anyone know if 2 copies of the same weakening curse will stack giving 50% more damage?

[Damnion]

title.

[Raine]

are you able to test it on the mannequin?

[Damnion]

Originally posted by Raine:

are you able to test it on the mannequin?

Maybe, I often find it hard to actually read those numbers before they disappear. Plus I'm gonna need to get another long run going to find double curses (fell in some poly and stepped on a fire stone that apparently dealt melee damage to me).

[burn1none]

from the wiki: "The Weakening Curse spells are a group of modifiers that causes projectiles to inflict a status effect similar to Vulnerable caused by Turvattomuusmestari, making afflicted targets take x0.25 more damage from the respective type. Enemies afflicted with a curse will have an icon of the respective damage type above their heads.
Tips
Despite what the description says, the x0.25 bonus is additive, not multiplicative (i.e. an enemy with a x0.5 damage multiplier will take x0.75 damage with the curse, rather than x0.625). Meaning that enemies with a x0 damage multiplier afflicted with the respective curse will take x0.25 damage, effectively ignoring immunities.
Keep in mind that this only works on x0 multipliers, and enemies with negative multipliers such as Kammolukki and Vakoilija will simply recieve a reduced amount of healing."

seem like it might actually

[Damnion]

Just did a test on the dummies. The damage didn't seem to increase when I switched from 1 copy to 2 copies of a curse. +sad

[Iluszachane]

Originally posted by burn1none:

from the wiki: "The Weakening Curse spells are a group of modifiers that causes projectiles to inflict a status effect similar to Vulnerable caused by Turvattomuusmestari, making afflicted targets take x0.25 more damage from the respective type. Enemies afflicted with a curse will have an icon of the respective damage type above their heads.
Tips
Despite what the description says, the x0.25 bonus is additive, not multiplicative (i.e. an enemy with a x0.5 damage multiplier will take x0.75 damage with the curse, rather than x0.625). Meaning that enemies with a x0 damage multiplier afflicted with the respective curse will take x0.25 damage, effectively ignoring immunities.
Keep in mind that this only works on x0 multipliers, and enemies with negative multipliers such as Kammolukki and Vakoilija will simply recieve a reduced amount of healing."

seem like it might actually

Regarding the last bit about enemies with negative multipliers -- that is actually false! I plugged Projectile Weakening into my chain bolt wand before Lukki Lair, and was able to kill Toothy Spiders (they have a -0.2 multiplier for projectile damage, so the +0.25 pushed it to 0.05, or 5% damage).

[Doombringer]

If it stacked you would always get 60+ instances of it from spam wands and it would be OP as hell...

[Boksha]

I think OP's question was specifically about having two identical curses before a single spell to create a more powerful curse, not hitting an enemy multiple times with a wand with one curse.

[Doombringer]

Yeah, but it works the same way...
(some of the spell data is in the entry in data/scripts/gun_actions.lua)
data/entities/misc/curse_wither_<whatever type>.xml
data/scripts/curse_wither_start.lua
data/scripts/curse_wither_end.lua

It reads the damage mult from the entity data & +0.25 to it for 300 frames (60 = 1sec, so 5sec) & puts an icon over the entity's head, then -0.25 it when time runs out.
It is always reading the creature's base mult every time it is applied though, so no way to make it stack.

[Doom Sayer]

Idk what readouts dummy can actually give. I know raw dmg always works but seems to me for certain types it doesnt.