Rock Hopper VS Immolate, Blood Poisoning, Bleeding Disease and so forth

[GrumpyGrandpa]

The Rock Hopper has an  called Salvage Site. This action states that it reduces damage from effects other than Attack Actions and Hazardous Terrain. How does this interact with abillities such as Immolate, Blood Poisoning, Bleeding Disease and so forth. They are attack actions, so they should bypas reduction from Salvage Site, right? Even if the action states that the damage comes from other sources (such as Tokens, Poison and Burning)

[Maniacal_cackle]

Q:

Sonnia Criid - Does Incorporeal reduce damage from Sonnia’s Scorched Soul Action?

A:

Yes. The damage from Scorch the Soul is both from the Burning Condition and from an Attack Action. Any modifiers from both sources affect the Action (such as Incorporeal and Flaming Body).

This FAQ says that it can be both from an attack action and from the burning condition. So I'd say it still affects the Rock Hopper.

[Adran]

As MC says, the damage is from an attack action even if it is also from another source. So the salvage site reduction will not apply.

One thing you do need to be careful about is the source of damage. The source of the damage for bleeding disease is not the tokens. They just are used to calculate the number for the damage. I don't think that will ever matter for bleeding disease, but the reason blood poisoning damage is poison damage is because it specifically states it. If you had a similar action that did damage equal to the value of the poison condition, but that was all it said, it wouldn't be poison damage, so things like high tolerance and perverse metabolism would not apply.