Does intelligence make spell Disintegration less effective ? intelligence increases duration of the spell but total damage does not change. So less intel will rmake enemies take damage faster?

No. It used to be so but not anymore.

Overall damage ist not fixed. You have a base damage per tick a base duration. More Intelligence will give you a longer duration andthus more ticks. More Might will give you higher tick damage. A crit will give you +50% duration. Enfeebled on the enemy will give you +50% duration. RES of the enemy will influence the duration as well (below 10: longer duration, higher than 10: shorter duration). So in some cases it's good to cast Psychovampiric Shield first. 

Edited October 26, 20196 yr by Boeroer

The spell description only shows base damage (240 raw/15s), not damage modified by Intelligence, so i thought total damage is fixed 🤦‍♂️

On 10/26/2019 at 9:13 PM, Boeroer said:

No. It used to be so but not anymore.

Overall damage ist not fixed. You have a base damage per tick a base duration. More Intelligence will give you a longer duration andthus more ticks. More Might will give you higher tick damage. A crit will give you +50% duration. Enfeebled on the enemy will give you +50% duration. RES of the enemy will influence the duration as well (below 10: longer duration, higher than 10: shorter duration). So in some cases it's good to cast Psychovampiric Shield first. 

In other words...Forbidden Fist and Cipher is OP?

Yes, it's good. Also because a Forbidden Fist can lower fortitude by -45 with Stunning Surge, Forbidden Fist and a Morning Star (makes critting with Disintegrate more likely which would give you another +50% duration). But note that (for whatever reason) the Forbidden Fist ability itself is not considered  a "weapon" attack and thus generates no focus (only with Community Patch).

You can produce similar results with a Debonaire/Cipher by the way: you can charm an enemy and then get a 100% crit conversion if you cast Disintegrate on him. This doesn't even flip his alliance back as a direkt damage attack would. So you can charm and then Disintegrate-crit without him fighting back.

 

Edited October 28, 20196 yr by Boeroer