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just had a long chat with an eso employee; "as long as an ability or ultimate is on your bar, you will receive the passive bonuses granted by that ability. So yes, Flawless Dawnbreaker will affect your weapon damage even if it is on your second bar while using your first bar." this has opened up a world of possibilities.

In Beta, I got to test out tons of different passives/actives, and most of my questions were answered. However after doing my usual min maxing ritual on the calculator (bored....dear god can this game come out all ready) I noticed something odd. Flawless Dawnbreaker-deal magic damage with 60% increases damage to daedric/undead targets/increases weapon damage by 13% passively when the ability is on your bar. Ok so lets give a perfect example of my question. As we all know, we have 2 weapon set bars. Lets say, FD is your ultimate on your second bar, and your using a different ultimate on your first bar. Would the weapon damage from FD still effect you when your first bar is up? I am almost sure it does, however I would like confirmation from someone on this. Side note- If it does, I have a spec that you all need to see.

I may be wrong about this, but I did in fact test this in the beta. "Ruffian" which increases your damage against slowed/immobilized or stunned targets by 15%; actually works with any weapon equipped. I know some of you have stated similar things, however I confirmed this one for sure, so logically speaking others would work as well. For those who will ask, I had a dual wield offset; when I was using my two handed ms, I noticed a slight increase in the damage numbers I was seeing when targets were cced. I believe that as long as the passive does not say "When using" then the weapon type, the passive should work 100% of the time regardless of the weapon equipped. There are some rather vague passives, like the bow tree, "damage increases vs distant targets"-would that effect the damage of a charge? That is my question