[2021] Questions Thread - February 12, 2021

No. "Spell critical strike chance" is the critical strike chance of hits dealing spell damage. Heralds do not deal spell damage.

"x% increased Critical Strike Chance for Spells" or "Spell Skills have x% increased Critical Strike Chance" applies to Heralds, because it cares about what type of skill it is, not the kind of damage dealt.

If you have the modifier, then it affects your spell damage, not the spectres' spell damage.

If you have a way to give that modifier to your spectres, it will affect their hits that deal spell damage, but not other hits.

You get 1 Atlas mission for each master for free each day (or 2 per master if you have the "Close Allies" Atlas passive node).

Upon completing a map, you have a 35% base chance to gain a random Atlas mission. There is +1% additional chance per 15 completed Awakening objectives, which with 164 maps currently on the Atlas makes +10% maximum. The "Close Allies" Atlas passive grants an additional +10% chance. The "Ally's" Watchstone prefix mod can grant up to +4% additional chance, so with 4 such Watchstones and +25% increased effect of Watchstone mods from the "Secrets of the Stones" node, that can be up to +20%. Thus you can get a total of 75% chance for a random Atlas mission on completing a map.

Atlas passive nodes such as "Master of the Atlas" and "Animal Companion" roll separately to grant additional Atlas Missions for specific masters.

Atlas passives and Watchstone mods that grant "+X% chance for Atlas missions to be Zana's" (or other specific Masters) do not affect the number of Atlas missions you receive, they only modify the relative weighting of that Master when the game is deciding which Master to award an Atlas mission for. These stats also affect the weighting of naturally/randomly spawned Masters (ie not Atlas missions), whereas the other stats mentioned do not. So for example, normally each Master has a 1/5 chance to be chosen. If you have +100% chance for Atlas missions to be Zana's (and no other such stats), then Zana will have a 2/6 chance to be chosen and the other four Masters will each have a 1/6 chance.

The "Close Allies" passive description could be improved. We'll see what we can arrange with the team. As for passives that provide a chance to grant an additional Master mission (such as "Master of the Atlas" and "Animal Companion"), these can proc regardless of whether you get a normal/random Atlas mission.

The first is a support effect, which is directly adding a stat (more attack damage) to the skill. All stats of the skill itself are copied to any minions that skill creates, so they get more attack damage in their base stats. Anything that is affecting socketed skills specifically works this way.

The second is a stat on your character which affects the damage of Vaal Skills they use. This changes the damage that skill deals, but isn't add stats to the skill itself so there is nothing to copy to the minion.

I have made a note to find that second description and update it to the more modern format ("x% increased Damage with Vaal Skills") for clarity.