dot solar + lethality

[Yuggernaut]

Are both mechanics working together?

I only see lethality activate when I use any gear except Solar Veil (Solar Dot, normal attacks, charge attacks, all about Solar).

[Futumsh]

No idea how any of that relates. Is there a specific weapon where initial hit doesn't seem to be triggering lethality?

[Yuggernaut]

No idea how any of that relates. Is there a specific weapon where initial hit doesn't seem to be triggering lethality?

I'm using veilblade assasin orb with 8/8 veilblade assasin set (never gets 'executed' in any case)

Instead, I switched to a full Blood 8/8 set and in the first 5 minions I encountered, 2 of them were executed (lethality activated)

[Futumsh]

Verified veilblade orb does trigger lethality.

[Yuggernaut]

Thanks for confirming, but I think something might still be happening

Perhaps because I played a whole season with Blood, and went around and saw many 'executed' activations, and now I don't see those many with veil
I just tried again, and out of 50 mobs, only about 2-3 were solar at most, where as with blood, about 15 were executed

I know it's random, and maybe that's all it is, or perhaps it could be something more, some kind of behavior again with the solar DoT

[intruders]

Do you have the same lethality % in both load outs? Blood bracelet has 25% lethality proc so that may explain why you see more executions using 8/8 blood as compared to 8/8 veil.

Also getting lethality kills is act of balance - lethality is only triggered when mob hp is below 20% so your damage should be just right to lower mobs HP below 20% without killing them so that next hit could trigger execution.

[Yuggernaut]

Do you have the same lethality % in both load outs? Blood bracelet has 25% lethality proc so that may explain why you see more executions using 8/8 blood as compared to 8/8 veil.

Also getting lethality kills is act of balance - lethality is only triggered when mob hp is below 20% so your damage should be just right to lower mobs HP below 20% without killing them so that next hit could trigger execution.

Yes, that's what's happening