Desecrate boons, touch spells, and taint spell interation

[Klapaucius]

I feel like this isn't working quite like it should be.

- You attack the ward with your Frostbite, dealing 21 points of unholy damage. The impact is absorbed with a resounding thud and the ward seems to ripple a bit. (2025-10-24 23:57:19)
Working as intended
- You feel a chill about you as the magic causes the air around you to flash with ice crystals. You can feel the potential hanging in the air, waiting to be discharged. (2025-10-24 23:57:45)
- You attack the ward with your Frostbite, dealing 27 points of unholy damage. The impact is absorbed with a resounding thud and the ward seems to ripple a bit. Swirling icy energy reinforced this attack! (2025-10-24 23:57:51)
Also working as intended as far as I understand.
- You activate the Boon of Ahg-Za-Haru, cloaking yourself in a cloak of malice and brimstone that will deal unholy damage to your foes. (2025-10-24 23:57:54)
- You attack the ward with your Frostbite, dealing 21 points of unholy damage. The impact is absorbed with a resounding thud and the ward seems to ripple a bit. Unholy waves of energy around you snake forth at them, assaulting them for 4 points of unholy damage! (2025-10-24 23:57:56)
Now we lose the basic touch-buff bonus from frost shroud, and get the lesser unholy supplemental amount. Overall loss of 2 points of damage from activating it.

[Jorus]

Did the boon aura overwrite Frost Shroud? Seems like that's the case. I seem to recall only being able to have one aura active at a time.

Edit.

Oh, I see. The boon is supposed to be +6 damage since you're automatically using Taint Spell on the ward, but it's not.

[Karlito]

Saw a funny interaction on a non-taint spell having character

- You feel a deep chill pass through your body. You will be resistant to fire damage while under the effects of the Fire Affinity potion. Attacks you make that deal fire damage will have their damage increased by three points. (2025-11-19 19:15:57).
- You feel the magic cause flames to gather about you; the flames dart back and forth across your body, waiting to be discharged. (2025-11-19 19:16:01).
- You activate the Boon of Tlacolotl, cloaking yourself in a cloak of malice and brimstone that will deal unholy damage. While the boon is active, supplemental damage dealt by your attacks will be unsoakable. (2025-11-19 19:16:05).
- (10 times) You attack the ward with your Burning Touch, dealing 31 points of fire damage. The impact is absorbed with a resounding thud and the ward seems to ripple a bit. Unholy waves of energy around you snake forth at them, assaulting them for 4 points of unholy damage! (2025-11-19 19:16:37).
- You feel the effects of Boon of Tlacolotl fade. (2025-11-19 19:16:40).
- You feel the effects of Sulphurous Cloak fade. (2025-11-19 19:16:40).
- You attack the ward with your Burning Touch, dealing 32 points of fire damage. The impact is absorbed with a resounding thud and the ward seems to ripple a bit. Roaring fiery energy reinforced this attack! (2025-11-19 19:16:42).

Not sure why the boon fading makes the base damage go up.

[Klapaucius]

I think what's happening is something like, the way boons work was not updated to account for the new (circa B5) way spell auras work, and as a result it doesn't play nice and definitely doesn't work consistently.

Well I guess one of the following things should be agreed is the 'correct' outcome:
- regular aura doesn't apply when changing to unholy damage with taint spell (I think this is the wrong choice, and would be a big unneeded nerf to touch spells especially for ward bashing)
- boon unholy aura has no interaction with spells, and is just an uncomplicated aura damage+supplemental booster (IMO preferred)

The current scenario, where boon stops you getting the aura boost, but then instead of boosting touch spell damage gives you supplemental doesn't feel quite right.

And yeah there's still some weird jankiness going on, as karlito's examples shows.

[Karlito]

I think, from testing on my VW, boons let you get +5 damage from Unholy againat wards (either triggering the destructive blow buff or the regular ward damage buff, but not both). So with the Doomhowler log above, the boon is providing +5 base damage but supressing the +6 aura buff.