Swashbuckler interferes with spellswords imbue

[cornelius_4]

Description of Bug Experienced:
I tried to replace the negative energy imbue on my short sword with frost, but instead of replacing it, the frost got added to it and I only have 1 level of spellsword.

It looks like the damage boost from swashbucklers insightful strike interferes somehow, since when that bonus wasn't there, the effect got properly replaced, but when it was there, the imbue was added instead.


Steps to reproduce the Bug:
Cast negative energy ray on weapon
Reequip weapons so the insightful strike bonus gets added again, if it isn't there
Cast another spell (I used ray of frost) on the weapon

Expected Result:
The 2nd spell replaces the current imbued element

Actual Result:
The 2nd element got added so that it had both negative and frost elements imbued

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Additional Information/Notes

[Itikar]

Related problem, again for swashbuckler/spellsword combo: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=28874

[garrbear758]

This is a known issue. You will find the same problem with using poison and imbues, hexblade and imbues, essences and imbues, assassinate and imbues, etc.

It's something where we need to rework how a lot of our bonus damage functions work, which is going to be a long process.

[cornelius_4]

This is a known issue. You will find the same problem with using poison and imbues, hexblade and imbues, essences and imbues, assassinate and imbues, etc.

It's something where we need to rework how a lot of our bonus damage functions work, which is going to be a long process.

It's not the exact same problem with poison and imbues at least, that one remains if I apply it after the imbue, so I'm only missing the on-hit imbue property. Then if I reequip it, only the on-hit imbue gets replaced with swashbuckler bonus damage, but the poison remains.

Perhaps the swashbuckler bonus could use the same "slot" as poison (I don't know how it works, just guessing)? Poison does seem less impactful, so it might be a smaller problem, as a temporary workaround, until it's possible to make it all work as intended.

Shortsword with GMW, Imbue and poison, but missing swashbuckler damage bonus:


Shortsword after reequip, only imbue on-hit gets replaced with swashbuckler damage bonus: