shock staff light attack damage

dangutang

I was messing around with the UESP build editor to try and see how much damage I could get with a magsorc light attack build (as in...buff up, throw down aoe's, and just light/heavy attack without using any spammable ability)....and the editor seems to use a different formula for shock staff light attack damage than for either of the other destro staves.

It treats it as DoT damage, and even with the class passives boosting shock damage, it calculated shock staff LA damage to be about half that of fire or ice.

I have no idea if this is correct, and I understand the UESP build editor's calculations are estimates...just wondered if anyone happens to know if shock staff LA damage is indeed calculated differently or not.

Nox_Noir

That's a bug in the editor. I was recently confused by this myself and checked.
The light attacks of Inferno/Shock/ice do the same base damage, but inferno gets its own 8% single target boost while lightning gets nothing.

dangutang

Thank you!

Checkmath

Also lightning heavy attacks are channels, so they are boosted by thaumaturge, which enhances damage over time, meanwhile light attacks are direct damage.

TheYKcid

Checkmath wrote: »

Also lightning heavy attacks are channels, so they are boosted by thaumaturge, which enhances damage over time, meanwhile light attacks are direct damage.

The final tick of a lightning heavy is direct damage

Reorx_Holybeard

dangutang wrote: »

I was messing around with the UESP build editor to try and see how much damage I could get with a magsorc light attack build (as in...buff up, throw down aoe's, and just light/heavy attack without using any spammable ability)....and the editor seems to use a different formula for shock staff light attack damage than for either of the other destro staves.

It treats it as DoT damage, and even with the class passives boosting shock damage, it calculated shock staff LA damage to be about half that of fire or ice.

I have no idea if this is correct, and I understand the UESP build editor's calculations are estimates...just wondered if anyone happens to know if shock staff LA damage is indeed calculated differently or not.

Lightning light attacks are a channel/DoT with a final direct damage tick which makes the calculation much different than the other 2 destruction staffs. I haven't tested light attack damage in a few updates so it well may be incorrect...at the very least I haven't updated skill coefficients for LA/HA from the last update yet. Will test and check it out next week.