I've read somewhere that this is at least true for chance-for-proc enhancements: only attacks that actually do knockback will have a chance to proc an effect from a knockback set enhancement.
It didn't occur to me when I read that to think this might also apply to basic things like accuracy, but in hindsight I suppose it might.
I just read the text block shown below here on the MM boards, and was wondering if it was accurate. What it says is that if you slot Acc/KB in a minion, and that minion uses a power that does not include KB in that attact, you do not get the Acc bonus. I find this revelation quite surprising. Does anybody know if this is really the case?
"If you go to your enhancement management screen and hover over battle drones, you will see knockback as one of the set categories allowed. If you then click the "show detailed info" button, you will see a drone's basic powers listed including laser burst. Click on that, and you see its info, which includes some energy damage but no knockback. That laser burst power itself also has a bunch of enhancement set categories that it accepts; unfortunately it just isn't displayed in the game, but as far as I'm aware knockback sets aren't on that list. This means that the drone pretends it doesn't have any enhancement from knockback sets when using laser burst.
Suppose you were level 50 and had the following enhancements slotted in battle drones:
- kinetic crash: accuracy/knockback (50)
- blood mandate: damage/endurance (50)
- nucleolus exposure (50)
- invention: endurance reduction (50)
- damage SO (50)
When a drone uses laser burst it will look at these enhancements to see what enhancement values it actually gets. The kinetic crash is from a knockback set and laser burst doesn't take those, so the attack won't receive those enhancement values. All pet attack powers should inherit pet damage sets so it will get the damage and endurance enhancement from the blood mandate. The nucleolus exposure, endurance common IO and damage SO are not part of invention sets and should be inherited by all the pet's powers that can use them, including laser burst."
Thanks for any feedback. IMO this is pretty critical for us new MMs to know.
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