Talk:Damage 2.0/Finishing Damage/@comment-2607:F2C0:94AC:8000:2002:7745:6C:11D-20171002071327/@comment-7645613-20171007223446

Nope, sorry if this is confusing but it's the fault of the game/wiki calling finishers and finisher damage the same thing, which they are not. A finisher attack (which is what + or - finisher damage is talking about) ignores armor/shields and deal damage directly to health, in a special damage type not normally resisted by anything, called finisher damage.

Slash procs deal the finisher damage type, but are not finisher attacks, so mods that increase or reduce finisher damage does not directly affect slash procs.

However, because slash procs go by the damage of your weapon, if you did a finisher on an enemy with that mod and you got slash proc, the slash proc might deal 0 damage as well, due to your attack also dealing no damage.

You would have to try to get a slash proc on an enemy while doing a finisher on them if you can to test that out though.