[1.05] Disintegration - potential oversight - underwhelming damage

[Insolentius]

Disintegration is a level 6 Cipher spell that deals 30 damage over 15 seconds... that's a whopping 2 damage per second for an end-game ability. This can't be right.

 

[Guest]

Could be a bug, but important to remember that they treat raw damage like it's god's gift.

[Narla]

 Haha, I'm gonna go right ahead and guess that you 2 have never actually used this ability

 

 The reality is that this is a case of a dirty lying description, it is in fact more on the side of a hilariously overwhelmingly overpowered ablity. What it really does is 30 raw damage every 3 second for its duration, and it scales with both might and intellect. I believe there are less then 10 enemies in the entire game on the hardest difficulty that will survive a crit of disintegrate on a 20 might and 20 intellect cypher, and those will die to 2 crit (or 3 non crit) disintegrates

 

edit: I just went and tested it on a 18 might 22 intellect cypher, a crit of disintegrate does roughly 430 raw damage.

Edited May 31, 2015 by Narla

[Insolentius]

They really need to correct a lot of ability descriptions (inconsistency between them and the way the abilities work in combat is driving me nuts). I didn't select this ability because I thought it was bugged.

[Narla]

Fully agreed!

[Kriber22]

A lot of these damage-over-time abilities will get updated descriptions in 1.06, according to the patch notes.

[Zwiebelchen]

Btw, this not only applies to desintegrate, but to many many other DOT abilities aswell.