Can someone explain to me the mechanism on linker link skill with AoE based skills?
Example is JP + Electrocute combo (JP+50% lightning),
and the mechanism on 2 target electrocute, will they bounce each other till electrocute stack ran out, or will they attack twice then done?
Yup! I think they will.
But why llinker and elem if you can put cryo c3 + elem c2 ? 
Thereās all kinds of combinations to work with, it would be more fun to see people making all kinds of diverse builds, over a small few
Check out this forum thread for a discussion on how JP works with AoE skills:
As for Electrocute, yes they can hit the same target multiple times (Check this video at around 2:50)
was wondering how would Cyro 3 elem 2 works, some insight ?
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based on that info, would electrocute be deemed single target AoE, or mass AoE, if electrocute is calculated as single target multi chaining AoE (because it hits 1 target at a time) i guess linking it will increase the damage by amount of target (and RNG, if i link 5 target, and all bounced to each other) that would be kind of absurd damage given by link->electrocute combo, moreover if enemy is frozen
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wow that was cool the damage will be multiplied to 5 it seems
was wondering what would be the strongest single target dps of a mageā¦ any idea?
Thatās exactly what Iāve been trying to find out for the past month or so. Not only Electrocute, but Hail and Prominence is also what I would consider a multi-hit AoE. It seems a bit too good to be true, which is why Iām still not too sure if itāll work that way.
Iām just gonna wait for the next CBT, since Iāll main a linker-ele this time around Iāll be able to test it myself.
Bleh amazed that no one else answered this yet. Anyways, linked enemies all take damage if one of them is hit. This means that if you have an AoE, it hits them all doing multiplicative damage.
ie. 10 enemies Linked, all 10 hit at once, they take 10X the damage they normally would take. Just apply that to any skill and thatās how it works.
No.
If you do a little bit of research youāll see that itās not as simple as that. Hell if that was the case I would be able to 1 hit everything with link + level 1 earthquake.
Wellp mind showing me your research then? I just got my knowledge from this, which is old mind you, but I havenāt seen any real changes other than they nerfed the amount of links you can do with Linker overall. Used to be 15 now max is 10.
Earthquake also used to break Linker Joint Penalty (not sure if it still does) but that means you wouldnāt be able to kill them either way with that skill.
If you have info about Joint Penalty not doing what he said it does from experience in kCBT, then please share.
What Iām sure of is that link works differently with different type of AoEs. As I said in my earlier posts Iām still not sure how exactly do they work, which is why Iām going to test it out in the next CBT.
Hereās some videos showing how link interacts with different types of AoE:
1.) Earthquake (single-hit AoE, similar to Meteor)
Pause at 0:12. Youāll see that there are 3 numbers of 595~597 (the Earthquake spell damage) and 5 numbers of 1016 (the link damage). This means 3 targets was hit by the Earthquake and all the linked mobs takes damage. Notice that the link damage was 1016 instead of 595x3.
2.) Firewall (ground based AoE, similar to Frost Cloud?)
Look at 0:21. The boss took damage from being in a Firewall yet the linked mobs didnāt take any damage. Not sure why this is the case but itās probably because the damage from Firewall works like a debuff DoT instead of direct damage. As you probably know already JP doesnāt share debuffs.
3.) Ice Pike (multi-hit āAoEā, similar to Hail)
Pause at 0:30. In this scenario each individual hits are calculated separately (as opposed to the Earthquake example) which is why you see lots of 262 damage (which is both the Ice Pike damage and the link damage). This is where your theory of ā10 linked targets hit, so they all take 10x damageā applies.
Itās hard to draw a conclusion just from several videos but I think it all boils down to how the damage for each specific skill is calculated.
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The first two videos are very old since they were published on January. Iām sure a lot has changed since then and the skill works differently now. Youāre right of course that itās better to test it for yourself though; Iām going to test this as well.
The 3rd video is still current but kCBT is constantly changing soā¦ again just test yourself about Joint Penalty. For all we know, there could be a damage limit on the skill. I heard kCBTers are still testing the skill too even while the game is constantly getting updates.
Yep, and since the next CBT will be 1 month long we should have plenty of time to test a lot of things. (Probably only for them to change everything again afterwards, but hey I love testing stuff so I donāt mind lol.)
Wouldnāt Linker C2/3 be too overpowered having Hangmanās Knot lvl10-15? The duration lasts longer than the cooldown itself. Thatās basically an ability to permanently lock down targets. Is there anything can repel this skill, and is it classified as a debuff?
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What does Hangmanās Knot do?
How useful is that though? Most of the time your linked mobs will die in less than 5 secs, and I donāt think bind works on bosses. Maybe itās good for PvP?
This skillās going to be imbalanced in PvP if you could essentially manipulate a crowd of players by just fingertips.
Yeah I would expect it to work differently in PvP, maybe it halves the duration or something like that.
Welp more things to test for the next CBT.
I should be asleep 
anyways hereās a recent video that Hangmanās Knot works on bosses. Itās somewhere else on the forums but I really do need to go to sleep.
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