Pathfinder concoction and weapons

So i was trying the pathfinder poison concoction, and realized something important: this is not a bow skill, and its attack speed doesn't depends on the weapon speed. It's damage, however, depends on the weapon damage since it's an attack skill.

This implies a lot of things:
- Any increased in bow attack or bow attack speed is meaningless
- You cannot increased the number of projectile with a bow that gives additional arrows
- The bow attack speed itself doesn't modify the attack speed of the concoction

Knowing all this, wouldn't it be way more interesting to use a slow, very high damage 2-handed mace? The downside would be that you have no quiver with increased attack speed (it's not bow attack speed so it works with concoction), but a 1000 damage mace feels like it would outclass it by a very large margin.

Anyone tried something like that?

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Shimeone#4257 wrote:

It's damage, however, depends on the weapon damage since it's an attack skill.

No, concoctions deal unarmed attack damage.

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MonaHuna#6449 wrote:

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Shimeone#4257 wrote:

It's damage, however, depends on the weapon damage since it's an attack skill.

No, concoctions deal unarmed attack damage.

While that Is what it says weapon damage most definitely affects it right now weather that's a bug or not who knows.

To op, it's an interesting thought however with right now with gem levels and widowhail I'm unsure if it would outscale or not, might be something worth testing

Your weapon damage does not affect concoctions. You can test this easily by unequipping your weapons, looking at your stats, and then equipping any weapon that doesn't have +gem levels. Because that's the one stat that does affect it.

You might be thinking of items that grant flat damage to attacks, such as rings and quivers. Those do affect it, as they add to any attack.

He probably has a bow with 'elemental attack damage' mod which is global and affects cold/fire/lightning concoctions.

Hmm