Acid Coating

Acid Coating is a weapon coating item that converts ordinary strikes into attacks that deal additional acid damage. Described consistently across localizations as a destructive or devastating coating, it functions by imparting bonus acid damage to any enemy struck with the weapon that has been prepared with the coating. The effect triggers on hit and is tied to the weapon that carries the Acid Coating rather than to a character or enemy status.

Because Acid Coating explicitly adds acid damage to weapon strikes, it serves as a direct damage modifier to physical attacks rather than a standalone spell or area effect. The coating’s purpose is to augment the offensive profile of bladed or striking weapons by layering corrosive damage on top of the weapon’s normal damage type. Localization texts consistently emphasize that the extra damage is acid-based and only applies to targets struck by the coated weapon.

Practical notes and usage considerations:

• Apply Acid Coating to a weapon when you want each successful hit from that weapon to carry additional acid damage; the bonus damage only occurs on enemies actually hit by the prepared weapon.
• Treat Acid Coating as a damage augmentation rather than an independent attack: it modifies weapon strikes rather than creating new attack actions.
• Since the effect is described as destructive and corrosive, prioritize its use in situations where adding elemental acid damage to standard swings is desirable.
• The coating is weapon-specific: the bonus acid damage follows the weapon it is applied to and does not transfer to other weapons or to unarmed strikes unless those are the prepared weapon.
• Use Acid Coating when planning loadouts that rely on consistent, repeated hits from a single weapon to maximize the benefit of the added acid damage.

Sources in multiple languages uniformly describe the same core behavior: Acid Coating causes extra acid damage on hits from the coated weapon. No sources provide numeric values, durations, or special interactions, so specifics such as damage magnitude, application method, or persistence must be referenced from in-game tooltips or technical documentation for precise mechanics.