Question: Why doesn't the Oil Slick from Oil Slick Arrow affect itself?

[Vanden]

The Oil Slick that you can attack to light the patch and the actual oil patch that knocks enemies down are separate, discrete entities, yes? And the latter hits all enemies within its area of effect, while the former IS an enemy that's always located inside that area of effect, so why doesn't the latter affect the former?

 

Follow up question, why doesn't putting a Fire or Energy damage proc in Oil Slick Arrow give it a chance to light itself

Edited November 6, 2020 by Vanden

[Parabola]

I believe the answer to the second part is that those procs don't actually fire before the slick is lit. My understanding of the mechanics is that oil slick arrow consists of two seperate pseudopets, one the unlit patch and the other the lit one. I think the lit patch completely replaces the unlit one so they aren't present at the same time.

 

Procs will only work in pseudopets using the relevant enhancement categories. The unlit patch does knockdown, slow and defence debuff but no damage so both the Positron's blast and bombardment procs can't fire in the unlit phase. The lit patch continues to do the knockdown and defence debuff so procs like touch of lady grey continue to work through the whole thing. 

[Luminara]

6 hours ago, Vanden said:

The Oil Slick that you can attack to light the patch and the actual oil patch that knocks enemies down are separate, discreet entities, yes?

 

Yes.  Oil Slick Oil and Oil Slick Target.

 

6 hours ago, Vanden said:

And the latter hits all enemies within its area of effect, while the former IS an enemy that's always located inside that area of effect, so why doesn't the latter affect the former?

 

Oil Slick Target is flagged immune to all effects and has mega-capped Resistance (9999%) to every damage type except Fire and Energy.

 

6 hours ago, Vanden said:

Follow up question, why doesn't putting a Fire or Energy damage proc in Oil Slick Arrow give it a chance to light itself

 

As @parabola said, Oil Slick Fire, the burn patch, isn't summoned until and unless Oil Slick Target is defeated.  Oil Slick Fire is the pseudo-pet with the targeted AoE attack.  Since the pseudo-pet doesn't exist until Oil Slick Target is defeated, it can't defeat Oil Slick Target via procs.