All attack spells, buffs and heals are affected by BSpS. What about skills like Bleed, Poison, Hammer Crash, Health Drain and so on? Is there a way to check whether its SS or BSpS?
If you need a SB to learn the spell, SpS will affect it.
Also, look on the skills tab. Hover over a skill. If it says Active, it will use Soul Shots, if it says Magic it will require Spirit Shots.
almost true. dagger stabs are active skills, but they do not use either ss or sps.
the only way to see for yourself is to test it.
i know for a fact (as i have read the patch notes - having never played half the classes involved in this) that SS consuming skills like stunshot, hammer crush, sonic slash, and more are pretty indistinguishable from active skills such as dances, frenzy, and more.
hammer crush consumes SS. in fact its 3x more potent with SS than without.
watch your weapon - if youre spamming shots, watch for the next fire. this will tell you whether youre using magic or physical skills. (this should be a hint as to what kinds of enemies resist you more - physical or magical)
Just make life easy.
Fire off a Spiritshot, do your attack, and try to fire it off again. If it's fires it used the spiritshot, if not it doesn't use it (conditional that you land the skill of course)
Same thing with Soulshots.