[2018] Skill Reveal: Lancing Steel and Shattering Steel

Originally posted by mrmackdaddy

I doubt that the Impale damage is actually added to your hit. My guess is that it's its own separate effect dealt as secondary damage.

Originally posted by ChaosAE

Since the stored damage is based on what was taken, some things like Vuln might make it double dip too.

Originally posted by Mao-C

since its reflected damage, its safe to assume that it cant cause or contribute to bleed then, right?

Originally posted by MwHighlander

damage from impales on the enemy is separate from the hit triggering them, and is reflected damage

Crown of the Pale King pog champ

Originally posted by redrach

Is the fact that the damage is unmitigated significant? I don't know how much monster armor mitigates a typical endgame player physical hit.

Originally posted by MaXimillion_Zero

Please consider changing the wording. Enemies taking increased damage should not fall under unmitigated damage, since it's the exact opposite of mitigation.

Originally posted by Iggy_2539

Based off the way you explicitly deny double dipping of mitigation/damage taken modifiers, it sounds as if the bonus damage from hitting an Impaled enemy could be double dipped by damage dealt modifiers; like "physical damage with weapons", support gems and so on.

So following that logic, an Impaled enemy will grant added flat physical damage to subsequent hits, similarly to Despair causing cursed enemies to take additional flat chaos damage.

If it is flat damage, this would also mean that you could infinitely ramp up damage on Impales, assuming you always hit the enemy before prior impales ended. Because the Impale bonus damage would contribute to a stronger Impale on subsequent hits

Is this correct? Or have I missed something?

Originally posted by tanis0

If any enemies impale players (or do so in the future), would Slayer's Headsman ascendancy passive grant immunity to the damage since it's considered reflected physical damage?

Originally posted by JennyInTheWood

Does this work with [thousand teech temu] the unique shield?

The shield has a mod of "10% of Damage you Reflect to Enemies is gained as Life "

I am just not sure if the impales debuff counts as the reflected damage I deal to the Enemies.

It could be build enabling if this works.

Originally posted by cybertier

Sorry to dig this up, but it's the best context for the question:

Is Impale affected twice by Worthy Foe? Initial Hit * 1.2 * 0.1 for the impale debuff, then every impale "tick" gets another 1.2 modifier?