Item:Treason

from DDOcast Ask the Devs 9 ;

Jerry: yeah that’s right, that’s right. Alright, next question here comes from Devastation 2 from Khyber.

This is a particularly crunchy question, I hope you guys can answer it, I’m just going to read it straight:

“Rogues get their subtle backstabbing enhancement, where level one gives you 10% hate reduction, level two is 20% and level three is 30% hate reduction. Treason, the named short sword form the Stormreaver has an ability which is 20% hate reduction. My question is a two-parter: 1. Does Treason stack with subtle backstabbing, so if I have two levels of subtle backstabbing and wielding Treason will I have a 40% hate reduction?”

MadFloyd: Actually it does stack but you have something like a 36% hate reduction, so you would have 20% for the subtle backstabbing and you’d get 20% for treason, but they’re not purely additive so basically it’s sort of like 80% times 80% so you sort of get like 64% as a result.

Jerry: Oh ok, so it would essentially stack on top of that other 20%

MadFloyd: that’s correct.

Jerry: Question 2 here: Does the treason effect affect weapons in your offhand – so wielding treason in my main hand and welding a +2 dagger in my offhand would my offhand gain the benefit of the treason’s 20% hate reduction?

MadFloyd: Yes, it would because basically what that does is reduce thread generated by any melee damage, and that would include whatever your offhand is doing as well.

Jerry: Alright. Nice.

Glin: I gotta tell you MadFloyd I’m impressed with that - that was so crunchy my teeth are just hearing it, so, you fielded that really well.

Jerry: Yeah I agree that was very well done, thank you.