IC is absolutely not necessary, 20/20/0/30/0 or 10/30/0/30/0 are perfectly viable PvE phantasm builds. You can get cooldown reductions where needed and keep your traits in damage lines instead of wasting them in Illusions.
I haven’t found Phantasmal Haste (which is far less of a benefit than stated) or Compounding Power (which only boosts personal damage, which is sucky anyway) to be anywhere near worth the damage loss.
If you wanted to really optimize you could even steal the last five points from Inspiration to put into one of the first two lines (15/30/0/25/0 probably best), but I find there are so many useful majors that it’s not worth it.
Mind Stab is dying to be a blast finisher, and I don’t think it even needs a cd adjustment seeing how guards get a 4-second (traited) hammer blast..
Stick a sigil of fire on the GS too, for more aoe burst / tagging.
First off, yes, the ~1650ish hits are crits, consistent with having a close to 100% bonus crit damage (==2.5x as much as a regular hit). The tooltip damage listed is the TOTAL damage for the wrack, assuming all clones hit, and NOT counting your Persona shatter. It gets divided EQUALLY among the clones you have out. It also (according to the wiki) doesn’t take weapon damage into account properly, which may be why it’s lower than the actual damage. It’s also always an estimate since it doesn’t factor in enemy armor. And I’m not sure if the damage tooltip takes Mental Torment into account.
So as you can see, as the # of clones shattered goes up, the damage per clone goes down (630×1 / 425×2 / 370×3 going by the tooltip, multiply by ~1.85 for your actual combat log numbers). IP adds exactly one more instance of that much damage, so it becomes 630×2 / 425×3 / 370×4, again assuming all hit. Notice that this SIGNIFICANTLY boosts low-end damage (1 clone + IP is about as good as a 3-clone non-IP wrack), tailing off to a 33% bonus for the full 3-clone+IP hit.
Oh and secondary question – I’m pretty sure once the target dies those clones are off your “queue”, so they won’t cause shatter effects. I haven’t tested whether they proc ‘on-death’ effects though.. (cripple, random condition etc. from traits)
Hi guys! First off, thanks for this, it’s awesome.
I’d suggest adding item names to the response output for the item and recipe queries, either by default or gated by an extra parameter. Mostly because with the current response output, any lookup I imagine (e.g. for a recipe) will immediately be followed by n lookups to the item_details to get the names of all the items involved, which a) slows things down, and b) increases load for you guys — unless everyone caches those locally which brings up other issues.
something like:
items.json?names=1
response: {[ {id=5613, name=“Tiny Scale”}, {id=5614, name=“Small Scale”}, ….]}
(similar for recipes.json)
recipe_details.json?names=1 —> add “output_item_name” at the top level, and then “name” inside each ingredient record.
That way you can get human-readable output from a single query without needing to do fetches for each individual id to figure out what they mean…