Martial Assault/Envenomed Blades doesn't affect pets

[Uun]

Envenomed Blades is supposed to cause all damaging powers to do extra toxic damage. It doesn't work on Fly Trap, Carrion Creepers or lore pets (although it does work on Sleet, Ice Storm and Caltrops). Note that Interface damage abilities do work on Fly Trap, Carrion Creepers and lore pets.

[srmalloy]

Are you activating Envenomed Blades then summoning your Fly Trap, Carrion Creepers, or Lore pets, or do you have the pets out and then activate Envenomed Blades? Fly Trap et al. are separate entities; once they've been summoned, any attacks they make aren't your attacks, so they don't get buffed. Expecting them to be buffed is like expecting Envenomed Blades to buff the attacks of all your teammates. As I understand it, if you summon pets while you have a buff that affects you active, the buff will carry over to the pet, but once summoned, a buff would have to be applied to the pet for it to get any effect. Interface effects are continuous, so they would be in effect when you summoned the pet, and would therefore carry over; if you had an empty Interface slot, summoned your pet(s), and then slotted the Interface slot, your pets would not get the effect from the Interface slot.

[Uun]

You are correct. If I activate Envenomed Blades first, Fly Trap and Creepers are buffed. Would be nice if the mechanics could be tweaked, as resummoning isn't convenient most of the time.

[srmalloy]

That's the way it's been since the game launched -- single-target buffs applied to you have never affected already-summoned pets. Changing that would involve a much deeper alteration to the mechanics of the game and would likely require rebalancing of pet powers. 

[Uun]

53 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

That's the way it's been since the game launched -- single-target buffs applied to you have never affected already-summoned pets. Changing that would involve a much deeper alteration to the mechanics of the game and would likely require rebalancing of pet powers. 

Not looking for that. Envenomed Blades is not so much a buff than it is a proc. It could be tweaked to behave more like Interface.

[srmalloy]

1 hour ago, Uun said:

Not looking for that. Envenomed Blades is not so much a buff than it is a proc. It could be tweaked to behave more like Interface.

Then Build Up is just a proc. It adds damage and a moderate to hit buff to all your attacks for a short time. Envenomed Blades adds typed damage and a moderate to hit buff to all your attacks for a short time. With the exception of the damage buff being typed, Envenomed Blades is mechanically identical to Build Up. This feels strongly like a case of "I want this one effect to work differently than all the other functionally identical effects in the game, because I think I should be getting more of an advantage from it".