Simply when using swift strikes and lightning strikes the amount of damage dealt as shock damage seems lower than 10%... e.g. 14 damage dealt (rounded), looking this up it seems it was split 13.5 physical and 0.4 shock damage... 

 

0.4 is 10% of 4 damage... not 10% of 13.5... there seems to be some error in the maths somewhere.

Yep, this talent is borked at the moment. The way it should work is that you get 10% extra shock damage from whatever your damage roll was (before DR), and then that shock damage goes up against 1/10 of the enemy's shock DR. That would put it in line with the lash enchantments, which do the same thing except they go up against 1/4 of the relevant DR (being 25% extra damage, it makes sense).

 

I think I remember reading that this talent's extra damage goes up against 1/4 of their shock DR instead of the proper 1/10. That would help explain the low numbers. So you might watch for that if you're in a testing mood.

 

Either way, this needs to be fixed. I used IE mod to remove this talent and give my monk a different one for now. Don't even feel bad about it neither.

Simply when using swift strikes and lightning strikes the amount of damage dealt as shock damage seems lower than 10%... e.g. 14 damage dealt (rounded), looking this up it seems it was split 13.5 physical and 0.4 shock damage... 

 

0.4 is 10% of 4 damage... not 10% of 13.5... there seems to be some error in the maths somewhere.

 

The bug is caused by how all secondary damage is calculated:

 

It's reducing the 10% bonus shock damage using 25% of the target's shock DR instead of just 10% of its shock DR.

 

On the flip side, the bug should work to the advantage of abilities that give more than 25% of secondary damage.

 

Same thing happens with torches, which is +10% burn damage -- the damage is still reduced by 1/4 DR instead of 1/10, making torches garbage weapons.

 

 

Maybe calling it a bug is being too generous.  It just looks more like a coding mistake.

Edited April 12, 201510 yr by Daemonjax