Burning, electric, Blessed and other weapon effects explained

Use Red Oxide Copper for the blade or weapon head. Melee hits have a 5% chance to ignite, dealing 15 base damage every second for 10 seconds, separately from the weapon hit. Reapplying the same burn refreshes it to 10 seconds without adding another damage layer.

Goblins and skeletons can both take this damage. Burning can also make goblins panic, with a 25% spread chance to targets within 1 m. Its trigger chance does not decrease with use. Configurable arrows do not inherit the ignite effect.

An Amethyst Bronze striking part gives melee hits a 10% electric chance. The effect lasts 2 seconds and deals 10 base damage every second, separately from the weapon hit. The same effect refreshes to 2 seconds on another trigger; its damage does not stack.

It works on goblins and skeletons, with a 33% spread chance within 1.5 m. Wyrdwood is different: it adds the Static damage property but no electric damage over time. Configurable arrows do not gain the material’s melee electric effect.

A Silver blade or head adds Blessed damage. The skeletons in the bestiary take ×3 damage from Blessed hits. Silver melee hits also disable skeleton revival, without needing to land the killing blow. Silver arrows receive the damage multiplier but do not stop revival.

The separate 10% chance to restore 5 health applies to a struck player, not an ordinary monster or the wielder. It is not life steal. The skeleton damage bonus belongs to Blessed hits; it does not multiply the burning or electric damage above.

Bloodwood and some weapon heads add Lacerating damage. It is a property of the hit, with no separate chance, duration or damage per second. You do not need to wait for a bleeding animation or another health loss after the hit.

Its benefit depends on the target’s matching protection. For example, Purple Gold armour takes Lacerating damage ×1.5 during armour resolution. The listed monsters have no Lacerating-specific multiplier; there is no separate flesh-only bleeding effect to apply to them.

Purple Gold adds Cursed damage to a blade or weapon head. It does not apply an extra curse that drains health over time. None of the listed monsters has a special weakness to Cursed, so the label alone is not a reason to expect bonus damage against a particular enemy.

The weapon still deals its normal hit damage. Purple Gold used as armour has a different role: Static damage ×0.4 and Lacerating damage ×1.5 during armour resolution. Those are defensive material multipliers, not attack bonuses from Cursed.

A Flanged Head is one component with the Piercing property. Piercing hits skip the player armour reduction step, including its material resistances. Thrusting with an ordinary weapon does not automatically grant Piercing, and this property does not add a damage-over-time effect.

For monsters, check the enemy’s own damage multipliers rather than assuming this player-armour rule gives a universal bonus. Likewise, a Staggering label does not promise a fixed stun duration: staggering depends on the target’s threshold and the attack.