affects insubstantial follow-up

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Johnny Angel

So, for both parts of the attack to affect insubstantial, they would both need that modifier?

I can see how it might be a little confusing. Follow-Up seems to imply that the carrier attack needs to hit to trigger the follow-up.

Or is there a way to have a follow-up which does not require the carrier attack to hit?

Using Link to combine an attack which does not affect insubstantial with an attack which does affect insubstantial would work.

Oh, it still needs to hit, so you roll to hit normally. The carrier hits and passes through the insubstantial character, doing no damage and no affliction and the like. Meanwhile, the follow-up Mystic Flame through the ghost.

(Of course, some follow-ups only trigger on impact, such as impact-fused grenades. You'll have to target the ground under the ghost's legs instead for those.)