[PTS 2.3.x] Sorcerer arithmagic

Gilliamtherogue

Asayre wrote: »

The 5% applies to different things. For dual wield it is to the swords for heavy weapons it is to the tooltip value

The 5% from dual wield applies to tooltip values as well.

Gilliamtherogue

Sword+Mace TT
Sword+Sword TT
Sword+Mace Comparison
Sword+Sword Comparison
(you'll have to right click each picture and hit view in separate tab to be able to zoom in)
As you can clearly see, the Twin Blade and Blunt's Sword aspect of the passive is applying the 2.5% and 5% bonus to EVERYTHING, including tooltips and even enchant damage, not just the dual wield abilities. All my stats were the exact same, the only change was equipping a mace and sword of equal stat parameters.

Gilliamtherogue

Found out on PTS that dual wield expert is currently bugged and not awarding any bonus weapon damage to off hands.
Also found that Twin Blade and Blunt is broken and swords are not providing a 2.5/5% damage bonus, but instead are offering a very small weapon damage boost. I bug reported both of them, as they're severely hurting potential DPS for any spec using them.

Ellwin

Still works, hence why every templar is using dual wield now

[/quote]While I don't doubt it, it's entirely asinine that they haven't fixed the novelty of melee weapon -> + Spell Power.

It's completely counter intuitive, unless they wish to offer up arcane versions of the melee weapons (not just enchanted ones).

It flat out shouldn't be this way. Melee should increase WD, arcane should increase SD.

Granted, if they remove this, they should increase stave damage overall to compensate, but it still irks me that placing a hammer and pointed metal stick in my hand somehow makes my magic more powerful.

After all, I've met the blacksmith - he's not that skilled.
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it does serve a purpose. zos wants players to have any weapon at there disposal regardless of there build. so to compensate for the extra damage a staff user would get with heavy attack weaving, you get the extra spell damage bonus with DW and greatsword. sword and shield has different perks as well

asneakybanana

ladyshadow wrote: »

Still works, hence why every templar is using dual wield now

While I don't doubt it, it's entirely asinine that they haven't fixed the novelty of melee weapon -> + Spell Power.

It's completely counter intuitive, unless they wish to offer up arcane versions of the melee weapons (not just enchanted ones).

It flat out shouldn't be this way. Melee should increase WD, arcane should increase SD.

Granted, if they remove this, they should increase stave damage overall to compensate, but it still irks me that placing a hammer and pointed metal stick in my hand somehow makes my magic more powerful.

After all, I've met the blacksmith - he's not that skilled.
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it does serve a purpose. zos wants players to have any weapon at there disposal regardless of there build. so to compensate for the extra damage a staff user would get with heavy attack weaving, you get the extra spell damage bonus with DW and greatsword. sword and shield has different perks as well

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Dat necro a+ for the effort lol

Ellwin

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Dat necro a+ for the effort lol [/quote]

hey i like my 4.2k spell damage. noone is gonna complain and get that taken from me!