Step 1: Get over the fact that something labelled "Field" is actually a beam

 

• Base duration of the beam effect is 12 sec
• Duration of the spell is 6 sec

 

What is happening in the other 6 secs (or in this guy's case, 10.2 secs)?

 

If the duration of the spell is supposed to match the duration of the beam effect, then that's a bug.

 

If the beam effect is supposed to be doing something in the delta between the end of the spell and the duration of the effect, it isn't happening (so far as I can tell), so that's a bug.

 

If the duration of the beam effect is supposed to be 6 secs like the spell itself, that's a bug.

 

Edited May 17, 201510 yr by Achilles

Actually it's working as described, alltough maybe the tooltip is not 100% clear.

 

"Duration" is for beam itself, it's always 6s.

 

"User +20% beam damage" is a self buff (you can see the icon) that improves damage of all your beam spells by 20% for the duration (affected by INT).

I'll believe you but that seems...weird.

 

What other beam powers do ciphers have?

Ectopsychic echo. Also it should work with ray of fire scrolls I guess. That's it.

That seems like an awful lot of work for something that only works with one other power. Mentally moving this bag into the "bug" category.