Talk:Excalibur/Umbra/@comment-107.202.204.90-20190223022411

I was wondering earlier if certain arcanes affected him, answer was no. I tested with a fully ranked arcane velocity on my pretty hystrix...which has 106% crit chance. at no time did the tempo increase past the norm. So,  like specters, he might not be able to crit. Alternatively, arcanes might not work at all. Too lazy to test. Also tried arcane strike. couldn't get it to work, AI was lousy which made it substantially harder.

Got to thinking about mods...he does benefit from armor, health and shield mods, we know that. I checked duration mods, they affected his abilities. Energy capacity and Quick Thinking work. Don't have the patience to test Hunter adrenaline, but I believe it may work. Peculiar bloom does not work, either because he can't crit, or because it simply doesn't work on him. Not testing adaptation, others have.

Also, stats seem to be snapshotted at time of transferring out, but maintained separately. If you transfer out with 600 energy, that will be used by quick thinking, but when you transfer back in, it will still be 600. Weird exceptions apply that I can't figure out.

So in short: most mods affect him, arcanes pretty much don't and stats have special snapshotting rules.