If you know, you know: Xata Ivara is an absolute powerhouse of damage output due to Xata’s weird spaghetti code mechanics, and now we can finally use that potential to N U K E.
Video is captured footage of the end result, although I hadn’t begun labbing things at the time. You can also freeze frame and spot a whopping ~8x Xata hit coming off a Blast death detonation.
Basically, Xata will trigger a second hit off Blast detonations, and be scaled massively off the big death blast detonations. I’ve been having the most luck with the hybrid snipers like Lanka, Sporothrix, and Komorex to place big blast procs. Komorex is in a class of its own with the elemental boost, high rate of fire, and AoE though.
I plan to continue testing this with blast beam secondaries, due to Arcane Precision’s capabilities in setting large Blast detonations quickly, as well as good status and hybrid Blast spreaders like Akarius Prime. Epitaph is also potentially an option, since the tapshots do both Blast and self-prime a multiplicative Shiver and Galvanized Shot with forced Cold…
If anyone else wants to test some weapons, please do let us know here.
Final note, I did a quick test on my Xata Loki and it seems to work just fine on regular Xata users. Blast is already silly, this just makes it sillier.
So, Dystopia actually figured this out last month. It turns out Blast double dips Elementalist mods, and then Xata adds another factor for a cumulative triple dip of a
1.9^3 ~= 6.8xmultiplier. I’m going to assume the extra damage comes from Empowered Dashwire, since Xata has some kind of spaghetti code to allow it to benefit from crit stats without critting.