Hello, here are some questions I have about damage :
1) +Power vs +Condition damage. As I understand it +power and +condition damage are included in Attack ( when we put the mouse on attack it confirms that ). And Attack is used in every direct damage skill, just not in conditions damages, like bleeding which only use +conditions damage. So if that’s true, +condition damage is always better than +power ?
2 ) As a necromancer I love the Scepter. Basically it has crap direct damage but do a lot of bleeding stacks and a poison stack. In the wiki for poison it says "Characters suffering from poison appear green tinted. " I do not see any green tick but I have a lot for damages at 56, some at 104 and a few at 12.
Now I am confused about a few things. 56 is oviously the bleeding part since I have around 7/8 bleeding active at the same time and I see a lot of ticks. I’m assuming 12 would be the poison since I don’t know what else it could be and 104 would be the critical bleeding damage,. But the poison is supposed to be a lot higher than the bleeding. From the wiki :
Bleeding :
2.5 + 0.5 * Level + 0.05 * Condition Damage per stack per second
Poison :
Level + 0.1 * Condition Damage per second
So what’s going on here, why are the poison damages so low ?
3) Now about the critical hits, again from the wiki they are supposed to be 1.5x the normal damages + prowess. I have like 5% prowess but it nearly double the damage, 104 critical bleeding vs 56 and I m not sure but I think this is the case with my direct hits too, nearly double. Am I missing something ?
4) A more oriented Necromancer question. As I said I love the Scepter and the damage output is essentially bleeding. A Scepter Necromancer must go with Curses Trait for the Lingering Curse : Conditions inflicted by scepter skills last 33% longer.
The Grandmaster “skill” Target the Weak does this :
2% increased damage for each condition on a foe.
First I’ll assume it is 2% increase on each condition type and not each condition stack, which would make my analysis even worse.
When I solo mobs I do 56 bleeding damage, so the real bleeding damage without the 2% is 56/1.02 = 54.90 damage. It does 56 with the 2% increase. Now when poison arrives, the bleeding ticks should do 54.90 * 1.04 = 57.1 damage. But it stays at 56.
We can conclude that the Grandmaster “skill” Target the Weak "2% increased damage for each condition on a foe. " doesn’t work on bleeding or any conditions. Which obviously makes the Scepter totally useless since all its output is based on bleeding and poison.
Is it a bug and it is supposed to affect conditions as well, I really hope that’s the case because scepter build is useless and does no damage as is or is it working as intended ?
5) Bonus question : Are wells based on Attack or just Condition damage and can they critic ?
Thanks in advance !
