question about illusion damage stacking traits
nobody has opinion about this?
No one really knows I guess, just take a look at this thread here:
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/46866-nuus-definitive-trait-tooltip-description-thread/
Many stuff there are explained in clearer details but till now there’s still no evidence of whether those traits stack or not.
I’ve been doing some testing in the pvp lobby area today, so I thought I’d see if I could answer this.
I took off all armour/jewelry, reset all traits and was using standard PvP weapons against heavy target golems.
For the first test, my traits were 10/0/0/25/0 and no majors were selected. I had just the minor Phantasmal Strength (+15% phantasm damage).
Over twenty Illusionary Warlock casts, the average damage per hit was 712.5.
For the second test, my traits were left exactly the same except that I selected the Empowered Illusions major (+15% illusion damage).
Over twenty Illusionary Warlock casts, the average damage per hit was 821.9, or 15.35% of the first test.
I’d say that, unless I’m missing something obvious, both traits do stack.
Interestingly, it appears as though they stack in a multiplicative fashion, since the second test was 15% more than the first, not another 13% more than the first test result (which is what would be expected if both traits gave a combined 30% increase above a base damage point). That may require a larger sample to verify, however.
Yes.
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