A little confused about the tooltip on the improved Silks of the Sun set...

chaserstorm16909 · June 2016

"Flame abilities deal an increased 400 spell damage." Does this mean you benefit from 400 more spell damage with flame attacks, or that you just get an extra 400 flame damage added to the attack? I am thinking the former but not sure.

Nestor · June 2016

This one is not very clear. Your going to do 400 more damage, (and since the change to the Champ System, it no longer matters what kind). So, use Flame Abilities for that chance to proc.

Which sounds like this set is more for Dragon Knights that most any other class. Sorcerers are Lightening, Templars are Magic, and NBs are Magic based damage if your Magic Focused.

It also makes me wonder what a Flame Damage Enchantment would do with this set.

AlnilamE · June 2016

It was always a Magicka DK set in my mind. My DK wears that, but the V2 version, because she was V4 and I haven't upgraded her gear yet.

Baconfat79 · June 2016

If it was still a 5% increase to flame damage like before, it would be amazing...but as a flat value increase, it's not going to be that great. I don't see it replacing the existing gearing paradigm for DKs, and certainly not for any other class.

Amdar_Godkiller · June 2016

Baconfat79 wrote: »

If it was still a 5% increase to flame damage like before, it would be amazing...but as a flat value increase, it's not going to be that great. I don't see it replacing the existing gearing paradigm for DKs, and certainly not for any other class.

Seems like even the highest DPS MagDKs would get more than 5% increased damage
from +400 spell damage.

Assume 45K Magic and 3K Spell damage

(without set)
3K(10.5)+45K= 76.5K tooltip

(with set)
3.4K(10.5)+45K=80.7K tooltip

100-76.5/80.7= 5.2% increased damage

Danksta · June 2016

I'd like to assume the former, but the lack of clarity and accuracy in some of the tooltips in this game prevents me from doing so.

RoyJade · June 2016

It's 400 spell damage added to the damage calculation when you use a fire spell. That's mean if you have 2000 spell damage, your flame abilities does damage as if you have 2400.
That seem to be better than julianos for DK : 400 + 129 = 529 (4th set bonus), so 229 more spell damage (and 1k health) against 7% less critical chance. And sun now come with every weapon/jewelries, so you can use MA fire staff, 5 sun and 5 TBS.

Don't think major/minor spell damage work on this extra spell damage, though.

Waseem · June 2016

the loss of spell critical when using silks of sun makes it useless...

Moonscythe · June 2016

I made a templar for a fire mage. She's magic but a fire mage.

Refuse2GrowUp · June 2016

Waseem wrote: »

the loss of spell critical when using silks of sun makes it useless...

I considered it as a second full set combined with TBS, but to have it as such means using jewelry and helm shoulders or DW. It certainly isn't worth going DW and losing Maelstrom and light weave. Wonder if the DPS gain would surpass Willpower and Skoria? Any mathematicians wanna take a shot at that math...or actually test it on PTS?

Gilliamtherogue · June 2016

Refuse2GrowUp wrote: »

Waseem wrote: »

the loss of spell critical when using silks of sun makes it useless...

I considered it as a second full set combined with TBS, but to have it as such means using jewelry and helm shoulders or DW. It certainly isn't worth going DW and losing Maelstrom and light weave. Wonder if the DPS gain would surpass Willpower and Skoria? Any mathematicians wanna take a shot at that math...or actually test it on PTS?

It would out perform Skoria and Willpower by a very small margin, but not Kena and Willpower, assuming you can sustain it. This is also only the case for DK's, as no other class deals wholly fire damage.