Basic setup: Worthy Comradery for crit chance, and Tenacious Bond for crit damage. Arcane Crepuscular also works. It’s pretty reasonable set up ability nukers with a Huras Kubrow for near-permanent stealth for Crepuscular uptime.
Projectiles that work:
- Breach Surge sparks (Wisp, Helminth)
- Flechette Orb (Vauban) – unreliable
Projectiles that need a more stable experimental setup:
- Seeking Talons (Garuda)
Not tested:
- Dread Mirror bloodball (Garuda)
- Airburst (Zephyr helminth) – if this works, it potentially has a setup on Piercing Navigator Ivara to make it actually deadly.
- Breach Surge sparks (Wisp)
- Antimatter Drop, Neutron Star (Nova)
- Spectral Scream (Chroma)
- Smiteballs (Oberon)
- Radial Javelin (Excal)
- Anything else…
Projectiles that don’t work:
- Anything on Styanax :(
This is going to open up a really funny and gimmicky way of playing certain projectile casters. Theoretically I think Arcane Arachne + Arcane Crepuscular is going to be the setup to use to really push this.
Obviously I haven’t labbed this extensively yet, so if any fellow labmonsters want to have a go at it, be my guest! I just wanted to share that this is some truly beautiful spaghetti jank. Remember to thank Vauban for leaving this buggy code open to us.
There’s some further inconsistencies such as Gyre’s ability crits not being real and not subject to absolute crit buffs like Shadow Haze, nor crit damage buffs like Tenacious Bond.
Still, I think Vauban’s flechettes’ odd status as hybrid ability-projectiles is the progenitor of any other bugged ability projectiles.