Some Weird Stuff with Damage Auras (and, separately, Perf Shifter Proc)

After a long retooling (several months acquiring the IOs) I have been having a blast with my Spines/Dark Scrapper. However (and with the caveat that appearances can be deceiving) I think I’ve noticed some odd things.

Last night I was fighting Nemesis troops, and Spines/Dark being what it is, killing pretty indiscriminately. That means I kept bumping off multiple LTs and causing the Vengeance Buff to hit the survivors. (I know better than to do this on most characters, but the spines fly where they will, so to speak.) Once the enemies were buffed up, my to-hit plummeted; eventually I was at 10% or less (despite having 57% acc enhancement in most of my attacks and a global +45% bonus.) When that happened, I would miss and miss with my click attacks…but not my toggles. Quills and Death Shroud were ticking VERY reliably. It appeared as if they did not miss.

I glanced in the combat log, and I didn’t SEE any rolls to hit for Quills or Death Shroud, but I was pressed for time and I didn’t really thoroughly read through the log thoroughly.

Those powers aren’t supposed to be autohit, are they? RedTomax doesn’t indicate so

That says “accuracy 1,” and “entities autohit” is blank.

The slotting for my toggle damage auras is roughly similar to my PBAoE attacks, so 55-60% accuracy, plus 45% global acc from set bonuses. Why would the click attacks miss so much (as expected when at 10% to-hit) but Quills and Death Shroud seem to hit so much?

I suppose it COULD be an illusion, but it sure looked like about the same hit rate pulsing away that I’m used to seeing on other enemies.

Also, looking in the combat log, I was somewhat distracted to see that my Performance Shifter +endurance procs (I have 2 slotted) were giving me something like +11.13 end when they procced, not +10. I have a high base endurance due to set bonuses and accolades (at one point around 121, iirc…it might be a little higher now), but would that affect the proc? I expected a straightforward +10 end. I haven’t noticed different results on other characters who have the proc and the Atlas Medallion, for example; those show “You have granted <character> +10 endurance from your Performance Shifter…” text, if memory serves.

Perhaps Nemesis Vengeance doesn't grant as much defense to AOE?

That's all I can think of that might end with a result like what you describe.

Vengance cast by nemesis doesn't seem to grant aoe defense, I noticed this on my ss/shield when farming the platform

Things like fireball, psychic shockwave, footstomp, etc bypass nemesis vengeance.

Interesting.

So further testing tonight seems to indicate (based on "last hit chance" in the attribute monitor) the following breakdown:

Affected by Nemesis Vengeance:

Lunge
Impale
Ripper (melee cone)
Brawl
Sands of Mu (melee cone)
Blackwand
Ghost Slaying Axe

All are single-target except as noted.

NOT affected (normal chance to hit Veng'd Nemesis):

Spine Burst
Throw Spines
Quills
Death Shroud
Scrapper Epic Energy Torrent
Dark Regeneration -- important safety tip!

All are PBAoE, or Targeted AoE cones.

This seems likely to support the theory that Nem Veng does not provide AoE defense.