1. Start a new game.

2. Create a Cipher character.

3. At level-up, make sure you select Biting Whip as one of your talents.

4. Attack a Tikaware bystander to initiate combat in order to activate Soul Whip/Biting Whip.

5. Land a hit during combat and check its damage breakdown by holding shift while mousing over the combat log entry.

6. Observe that Soul Whip + Biting Whip are giving you a 20+40 = 60% damage boost.

 

 

Note that the same applies to Soul Whip + Draining Whip, which give you 20+20 = 40% extra damage.

 

Is this intended?

 

The abilities' tooltip seem to suggest that Biting Whip would change Soul Whip from 20% to 40%, whereas Draining Whip would change it from 20% damage to 20% damage + 20% focus gain increase.

 

 

EDIT:

Dam ninja'd me on the bonus issue I mention below— https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/94674-skill-cipher-biting-draining-whip/

 

Bonus issue:

 

1. Start a new game.

2. Create a multiclass character with Cipher as its second class.

3. Level-up the character.

4. At 4th level, select Biting Whip and hit next; now the game will let you pick a second ability for this level up.

5. Observe that you can pick Draining Whip even though you've already taken Biting Whip.

 

Biting Whip + Draining Whip stack with each other. In combination with the bug above, this gives you 20+20+40= 80% extra damage on top of 20% more focus gain.

 

Even if the above is not a bug and Biting Whip is indeed meant to give you 60% (and Draining Whip 40%), I'm quite positive Biting Whip and Draining Whip should be mutually exclusive.

Edited November 25, 20178 yr by AndreaColombo

Hey AndreaColombo,

 

Thanks for the post, I've ensured this got added to our system to be looked into by our Systems Devs.

 

You the best,

 

-Caleb