Does concealed Explosives stacks with the other damages?

[(PSN)poloslash18]

I have concealed explosives in my Despair and want to know if it stacks or just replace that damage over all.

 

For example: My Despair does 1.5k Corrosive dmg and like 460 physical dmg plus 250 blast damage from CE or it's just 250 dmg from concealed explosive and the others get ignored (when it explodes of course, it's like a 98% chance).

[Kungpaobeef]

The damage is a set amount, always 250 regardless of how much damage your despair does. It's similar to thunderbolt, the bow version of this mod. Multishot can be used to increase the chance of a projectile being explosive but damage does not shift, which is why most people don't use thunderbolt after higher levels. Unless the fire rate of said weapon is fast, like the rakta cernos or the attica.

[RagingGrizzly]

I think it has a damage cap, like Combustion Beam.

[(PSN)federally]

The concealed explosives damage is added on top of your weapon's damage.

 

It does not replace it

[Vantooth]

So your throw your despair, it land on an enemy and deal all of it damage as normal +250 from concealed explosive. Nearby enemy in the explosion range take 250 damage from CE/explosion.

If your despair land on the ground beside an enemy, it will explode (or not) and deal 250 damage in a AoE.

The despair still does the same damage no change. Only there's an additional explosion that does 250 blast.

[[DE]Momaw]

It's worth pointing out that while Concealed Explosives has similar mechanics to Thunderbolt, it is much more powerful:

• Secondary weapons tend to have higher rate of fire than bows.
• Secondary weapons have more multi-projectiles than primaries, and each one can trigger the full 250 damage explosion.
• Concealed Explosives has a 80% chance per projectile to explode, rather than 30% of Thunderbolt.

The typical weapon to use Concealed Explosives with is the Hikou Prime.  Base fire rate 5.8,   then you add the bonus from Lethal Torrent and get 9.28 shots per second.  Secondary multishot with Lethal Torrent and Barrel Diffusion is 2.8, so 26 projectiles per second. With an 80% chance for each one to explode for 250 damage, that's the equivalent of over 5000 DPS within a rather significant AOE, on top of whatever the weapon itself does on direct hits.