Elements

Brief overview of what each element does (as far as I can tell)

Overview

Edit: Elements now apply with a chance-based system. As a general ruile of thumb, slower fire-rate weapons have a higher chance of applying effects. Arcane has also been added to the game!

This is a scuffed guide, but I didn't see any info on this topic yet, and some of the skills work counter-intuitively to what you might expect. I'll update numbers accordingly as I do a bit more testing.



Elemental stacks are greatly reduced against enemies with armour (the blue bars) and I don't think they can be frozen either.

Poison

Poison is NOT a DoT effect. Instead, it amplifies ALL damage dealt. This value is multiplicative, seemingly around 1% per stack of poison.

If you have the "timed shots perk" (damage increased, but dealt as a DoT), the first tick will apply the toxic proc, and the following ticks of damage will be amplified.

Fire

Igniting enemies applies a DoT. It will also thaw any frozen enemies.

As far as I can tell, it looks like at 100 stacks, it deals 5 damage ~10 times per second. AKA around 50% of stacks as dps.

Ice

Ice freezes enemies for around 20ms per stack. 50 stacks freezes enemies for around one second.

Freezing enemies clears all stacks of fire.

Shock

Shock makes electricity arc out around the target to hit nearby enemies.

Shock is kinda weird, definitely need to do some more testing. When applied, it zaps the enemy hit and nearby enemies. Then, every tick, the stacks halve and it zaps the same enemies for 1/2 of the previous tick. Each tick is about 1/10th of a second.

@100 stacks, it zapped for 364 damage
@50 stacks --> 182
@25 --> 91
@13 --> 46
@7 --> 24
@4 --> 13
@2 --> 7
and then
@0 it zapped the first target (only) for 104 damage

Yeah it's a bit of a weird one.

Arcane

Arcane deals damage equal to the number of stacks every second. After applying said damage, the number of stacks then decreases. The exact amount of reduction seems to be a little variable? It appears to be around 15% of current stacks (i think there's some rounding shenanigans going on. I'll do some proper testing later)

[Kreldin Starfeather]

Playing today I noticed that my arcane procs seemed to be benefiting from my Crit stats, AND triggering 'Critical blast'. Unusual to see a DoT affected by crit.

[Yami]

iirc, shock damage is also amplified by ice

[Plasmawario]

\/ this. I've always wondered what those actually meant. Wondering if those are just unused elements that were accidentally left in the random shot rotation, or if they don't have a purpose yet, or what, but they don't seem to do anything

[swhipple]

What about the red triangle, blue triangle, and red exclamation point applied by random shot?

[Guzzard]

Arcane does damage based on how many stacks you've applied, then removes 20 stacks. So stacking more ends up doing a lot more damage over time.

[Brisky]

what about arcane cause thats what i wanna know

[cajun dill gator-tators]

Damn I never would have guessed

[DoomRunner]

now you need to figure out how random shot debuffs work :P

[Roadkill Pigeon]

Thanks for this, I was wondering what each of these actually did.