NB Catalyst Not Working On Alchemy Potion Bonuses

dragnier

Edit: Must have been a bug, its working now.

Rosveen

Wouldn't be the first time we see a misleading tooltip in ESO...

dragnier

Rosveen wrote: »

Wouldn't be the first time we see a misleading tooltip in ESO...

You have a point... just wish you didn't.

ferzalrwb17_ESO

What are you talking about? For starters I find the extra 30% resource return quite handy but it increases things like weapon crit, spell crit, spell power, weapon damage.

It doesn't increase duration (that's an alchemy crafting passive) but it does increase numerical effect by 30% of everything that I've looked at so, for once, the tooltip is correct.

dragnier

ferzalrwb17_ESO wrote: »

What are you talking about? For starters I find the extra 30% resource return quite handy but it increases things like weapon crit, spell crit, spell power, weapon damage.

It doesn't increase duration (that's an alchemy crafting passive) but it does increase numerical effect by 30% of everything that I've looked at so, for once, the tooltip is correct.

Edit: Must have been a bug, its working now.

phaneub17_ESO

dragnier wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

Wouldn't be the first time we see a misleading tooltip in ESO...

You have a point... just wish you didn't.

I like how Soul Shatter doesn't say it requires you to slot a Soul Magic ability in order to function

I think the reason why Catalyst doesn't affect other things like spell power, crit and so on is that they want to keep the Argonian Waterbreathing passive unique in that retrospect. What Catalyst should say is it boosts restorative potion effects. I wouldn't say that abilities are misleading, just very vague information about their function. You think they would hire some professional writers to detail what an ability or passive does in full, or have the option to have short or long descriptions in the tooltip box as some other games do.

ferzalrwb17_ESO

dragnier wrote: »

I've tested it and Catalyst does not increase anything on a potion other than the base health, magicka, or stamina return.

It works for me. Well.. it did when I checked last. I'll check this out soon and report back but I definitely noticed weapon damage etc reporting higher values.

edit: I've just checked. Working fine. Adding 30% to spell/weapon crit and power values. Works on the pot tooltip and corresponds to character stats upon use.

Level 50 Pots normally add 300 crit, now add 390 (same for any level pot actually), normally add 17 spell power or weapon damage, now add 22.

edit2: Just occurred to me: Let me guess... were you looking at the potion's description and expecting a 30% boost on top of that? :P

The information for the potion includes the 30% bonus on a Nightblade with 2 points in Catalyst. You can only see what the potion would be without catalyst by looking at it on an alt (or asking someone else).