Dragonborn testing - cold breath

[Maelodic]

Cold Breath (wolf ability) is classified as a breath attack- could somebody please test to see if the dragonborn power in breath and augmented breath enhancements work on it?

Requires dragonborn with 9 levels of druid

[Maelodic]

So after some other testing, I'm almost entirely sure it does. However, Cold Breath does not get evocation bonuses, which will decrease its DC by a pretty huge amount.
I was actually really excited- had a build planned out with dragonborn wolf melee, hitting cold breath whenever essence of the shrike popped off. It has pretty great base damage and a super short cooldown, and you could make this kind of weird hybrid build really work well- especially with something like Arcane Warrior and some crit threat.

Could, if it worked like Dragon Breath. But it doesn't.

[Hedd]

So after some other testing, I'm almost entirely sure it does. However, Cold Breath does not get evocation bonuses, which will decrease its DC by a pretty huge amount.
I was actually really excited- had a build planned out with dragonborn wolf melee, hitting cold breath whenever essence of the shrike popped off. It has pretty great base damage and a super short cooldown, and you could make this kind of weird hybrid build really work well- especially with something like Arcane Warrior and some crit threat.

Could, if it worked like Dragon Breath. But it doesn't.

Dragon Breath does however clear the room with a Water Elemental caster Druid ^.^

[Maelodic]

Dragon Breath does however clear the room with a Water Elemental caster Druid ^.^

Yeah - dragon breath is great and viable throughout the game and is a wonderful nuke every thirty seconds.

Cold breath is also a great and wonderful nuke to pop off every time essence pops up as long as you're playing on normal difficulty.

[Elfishski]

Cold Breath (wolf ability) is classified as a breath attack- could somebody please test to see if the dragonborn power in breath and augmented breath enhancements work on it?

Requires dragonborn with 9 levels of druid

No idea about cold breath, but warlock ES aura seemed to proc dragonborn augmented breath when I tested it a while ago and it worked on at least some red names (lulling or relentless, I forget), so I wouldn't be surprised if other random abilities proc augmented breath too.

[Khalibano]

This does not seem to have been fixed since this thread was created in 2017.

Really hoping a a Dev could look into this

[Tchtutax]

This does not seem to have been fixed since this thread was created in 2017.

Really hoping a a Dev could look into this

I second this note!

[Maelodic]

This does not seem to have been fixed since this thread was created in 2017.

Really hoping a a Dev could look into this

I don't know if this could be considered a "bug" exactly.

Cold Breath is already great on a wolf caster that invests a bit into it on everything but high reaper - it has better scaling than Ice Flowers does (same max damage, but it's like if Ice Flowers had a max roll on one of them) and has no save. It has a two second cooldown, so you can spam it like crazy for a ton of damage. With your pet out and Shrike, you're likely casting it for free very often as the pet procs shrike.

Give it Draconic Breath Augmentation and that's a 15% chance to paralyze everything for 4 seconds with no save and the 8% chance to knock down with no save every two seconds, that'd be pretty great on an attack that you can spam and pump out tons of damage on.