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Summary: When a Knight with a 2-handed weapon attacks with a Coral weapon to trigger water bomb, the damage of water bomb can be doubled by swordcross, but it can't apply sword cross itself.
Server: Any
Character: Any
Position: Any
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Expected result: Water bomb can apply swordcross as long as the Knight is using a 2-handed weapon.
Actual result: Water bomb can't apply swordcross but it can consume it.
Additional comments:
I tested this by aggroing multiple mobs. I had another client target a mob that was not my main target and carefully watched the statusbar of the mob that continuously was hit by water bombs. After a few dozen of water bomb detonations, it had not applied Swordcross even once while the chance for it to happen should be 24%.
This working the way it does harms the AoE damage of Knights quite significantly. Knight currently ranks in 7th place when it comes to AoE dps so this nerf is not warranted in my opinion. As far as I know, nothing else that a Knight can do can consume SC while being unable to apply it. It's always both or neither. Water bomb usually takes in all the stats and effects of the person who triggers it.
SC is supposed to inherently increase all the damage that a Knight does by 24%. But since the first water bomb removes all SC debuffs and subsequent ones and the following AoE skill will never have any SC left, SC's effectiveness could drop from 24% to as low as 5% if the pull is big enough. That is practically a negative upcut stone. Letting Knights have this would bring them a bit closer to Billposter's and Blades who currently deal way more AoE damage than Knights do.
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