Critical Damage increase - NB

GreasedLizard

After a ton of Battle Log testing on same mobs in same area. With and without Shadow Mundus, with and without Divine gear @ +7.5%, +15% and +22.5% .... and of course our +10% Hemorrhage passive**

** (4.4%-4.8% only BTW and only when skill is slotted) Veil ULT seems to get a hair less, perhaps due to the damage ticks being half of what Pulsar hits for.

I can say with 100% certainty that Shadow Mundus + any amount of Divine gear will always = 150% damage.

Be it for Veiled ULT, light attacks, PE, Pulsar.

Switched to Mage Mundus after, and taking off a 7.5% Mundus piece of gear netted me a loss of 0.5425% max Magicka (15 magicka before soft cap penalty) = comparble to what Infused may increase your MP enchant on a 'lesser item' like a belt.

Ran multiple sets of combat just like earlier, now with Mage Mundus, and same +150% critical damage. Mundus made no change. Won't bother dropping 18k on respec to prove the damage will not drop w/ Assassination class line passive, as I can't see the baseline being below 150%

Phinix1

You are definitely onto something here. What that something is however, I cannot say. Not without more information.

GreasedLizard

Super easy to test, as light, heavy, skills, ULT will always do the same damage vs same mob. There is zero RNG.

Crit damage divided by regular x 100 = %.

150 always with Shadow Mundus + any amount of Divine gear (obviously) .. but wanted to test all scenarios

Hemorrhage testing was just side benefit, although sad all the same

Mujuro

When you say "any amount of Divine gear", are you saying that wearing a single piece gives you the same bonus as wearing 7 pieces?

GreasedLizard

Test were mainly to show critical damage increase with Shadow being non-existent. Zero divine gear up to +22.5%. I didn't expect an increase past 150% with Divine, as there is no bonus to scale up.

Haven't tested the scaling of Mage with Divine, but it did show that small improvement that I mentioned. Consensus on TF forums is that it is multiplicative and not additive though for %s

Vandril

So, in simple terms, Shadow isn't working, and neither is Hemorrhage.

That's a tad disheartening. I think Zenimax already knew about Hemo not working, though. I vaguely recall hearing that that was on their "to fix for Nightblades" mega-sized list.

GreasedLizard

Think they had Khajiit passive working though until that nerf

Fnoptik

Khajiit passive giving critical chance, not critical damage. And its working now.

GreasedLizard

They originally had critical damage as part of their passives.

Fnoptik

Originally? In beta you mean?