Select "FighterDudette", the dudette in Vailian clothes, and access her character record.
Scroll down to her talent list and observe she has the Spirit of Decay talent, which gives +20% Corrode damage.
Go to her Inventory and observe she is wielding Bittercut, a sabre that deals Slash/Corrode damage. Further observe the minimum damage listed is 17, which does not take Spirit of Decay into account (rightfully.)
Back to the game, have FighterDudette attack the Amaua protagonist who is wearing a brigandine (brigandine is weak against Corrode, so every swing will deal Corrode damage.)*
Keep an eye on the combat log. The minimum damage you should observe before DR applies is 17 * 1.2 = 20.4 (you'll have to hover your mouse over every hit to get the pre-DR damage; ignore grazes and crits for convenience.)
Observe that you'll easily get hits below 20.4 damage, suggesting that Spirit of Decay is not boosting the Corrode damage from Bittercut.
* I equipped Coat of Ill Payment because it was readily available but there's likely another brigandine or two in the Stash which would make the combat log less crammed (Coat of Ill Payment has retaliation.)
The same steps as above may be followed to test Stormcaller and Heart of the Storm.
The character with Stormcaller is CipherDudette, black woman with Aedyran clothes. She has Heart of the Storm and the minimum pre-DR damage should be 13 * 1.2 = 15.6
This one has been trickier; the minimum I got was 15.4 and only happened once (but I guess it's the same bug as Bittercut's and fixing it for one weapon fixes it globally.)
This time around I had no mods installed :D
EDIT:
Additional stuff.
Enchant Bittercut with Corrosive Lash, which gives +25% Corrode damage.
Use FighterDudette to attack the Aumaua protagonist.
Observe in the combat log that even though Bittercut is dealing Corrode damage as a base, the lash goes separately against 25% of the target's DR.
This is how lashes normally work, but in the case of a weapon already dealing Corrode damage, shouldn't the lash simply add up to the base damage? This is one of those "bug or intended" questions that should probably go to a designer
...aaand if you really have some extra time (which I doubt you do): Try creating a Fire Godlike and equipping them with Bittercut. When I do it, the sword takes on a reddish tint that looks rather ugly.
Edited by AndreaColombo
"Time is not your enemy. Forever is."
— Fall-From-Grace, Planescape: Torment
"It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question, and he'll look for his own answers."
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REPRO STEPS:
Load the attached saved game.
Select "FighterDudette", the dudette in Vailian clothes, and access her character record.
Scroll down to her talent list and observe she has the Spirit of Decay talent, which gives +20% Corrode damage.
Go to her Inventory and observe she is wielding Bittercut, a sabre that deals Slash/Corrode damage. Further observe the minimum damage listed is 17, which does not take Spirit of Decay into account (rightfully.)
Back to the game, have FighterDudette attack the Amaua protagonist who is wearing a brigandine (brigandine is weak against Corrode, so every swing will deal Corrode damage.)*
Keep an eye on the combat log. The minimum damage you should observe before DR applies is 17 * 1.2 = 20.4 (you'll have to hover your mouse over every hit to get the pre-DR damage; ignore grazes and crits for convenience.)
Observe that you'll easily get hits below 20.4 damage, suggesting that Spirit of Decay is not boosting the Corrode damage from Bittercut.
* I equipped Coat of Ill Payment because it was readily available but there's likely another brigandine or two in the Stash which would make the combat log less crammed (Coat of Ill Payment has retaliation.)
The same steps as above may be followed to test Stormcaller and Heart of the Storm.
The character with Stormcaller is CipherDudette, black woman with Aedyran clothes. She has Heart of the Storm and the minimum pre-DR damage should be 13 * 1.2 = 15.6
This one has been trickier; the minimum I got was 15.4 and only happened once (but I guess it's the same bug as Bittercut's and fixing it for one weapon fixes it globally.)
This time around I had no mods installed :D
EDIT:
Additional stuff.
Enchant Bittercut with Corrosive Lash, which gives +25% Corrode damage.
Use FighterDudette to attack the Aumaua protagonist.
Observe in the combat log that even though Bittercut is dealing Corrode damage as a base, the lash goes separately against 25% of the target's DR.
This is how lashes normally work, but in the case of a weapon already dealing Corrode damage, shouldn't the lash simply add up to the base damage? This is one of those "bug or intended" questions that should probably go to a designer
...aaand if you really have some extra time (which I doubt you do): Try creating a Fire Godlike and equipping them with Bittercut. When I do it, the sword takes on a reddish tint that looks rather ugly.
Edited by AndreaColombo"Time is not your enemy. Forever is."
— Fall-From-Grace, Planescape: Torment
"It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question, and he'll look for his own answers."
— Kvothe, The Wise Man's Fears
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