Fulminating Rune - please explain to me

Ombreduvent

I would like someone to explain to me why the arcanist skill Fulminating Rune at level III gives more damage than at level IV

wilykcat

What language is that in?

Can someone please translate the screenshots?

Ombreduvent

Google Translate:
lvl III - Deals 22352 Magic damage over 20 seconds. The rune lingers on the target for 6 seconds before exploding, inflicting 6501 Frost damage. Up to 3 allies near the initial target can activate the Runebreak synergy, which inflicts 12318 frost damage.

lvl IV - Deals 18029 Magic damage over 20 seconds. The rune lingers on the target for 6 seconds before exploding, inflicting 5285 Frost damage. Up to 3 allies near the initial target can activate the Runebreak synergy, which inflicts 9908 frost damage.

tenryuta

did you use it at 3 and 4 and are the numbers roughly the same as the tooltip(s), could just be a bad tooltip.

SacredNym

Are you sure there wasn't some other buff on your character when you looked at the rank 3 tooltip that wasn't there when you looked at the rank 4?

Ombreduvent

SacredNym wrote: »

Are you sure there wasn't some other buff on your character when you looked at the rank 3 tooltip that wasn't there when you looked at the rank 4?

I have everything as I had on level III. Sometimes I take pictures of my level III skills to see how much they have increased on IV. So I was a bit surprised that at tier IV the damage is less. However, with all the bugs that have come out recently, maybe this one is the next...

DahliaNightshade

Were you already max level when you took the screenshots?

The adjustments while levelling may be the cause of the difference in damage.

RaptorRodeoGod

If you're below gear level cap, and you've leveled your character between the 2 screen shots, this would be what you'd see. When your character starts out-leveling your armor, your stats start to go down.

Tessitura

What level were you when it was at II and what level are you now that it is at IV? The game scales lower level characters up a bit but the scaling decreases as you level up until eventually it zero's out and goes away. THe higher your level the more important stat and gear scaling becomes.

Ombreduvent

Tessitura wrote: »

What level were you when it was at II and what level are you now that it is at IV? The game scales lower level characters up a bit but the scaling decreases as you level up until eventually it zero's out and goes away. THe higher your level the more important stat and gear scaling becomes.

I was around 1900CP at the time

Aiden_Ayzaria

If I look at the first screen, you were in Imperial City Prison, right? If you tag on random dungeon finder, you will get a buff for the whole run, depending on your role (I assume you were DPS). On the second screen, you seem out of the dungeon so I assume you had the random dungeon buff on the first screen, got your spell to level 4 with the exp gotten from that daily completion and then checked the tooltip outside after the buff was gone. It might explain why you had higher tooltip on the level 3 spell.

Ombreduvent

Aiden_Ayzaria wrote: »

If I look at the first screen, you were in Imperial City Prison, right? If you tag on random dungeon finder, you will get a buff for the whole run, depending on your role (I assume you were DPS). On the second screen, you seem out of the dungeon so I assume you had the random dungeon buff on the first screen, got your spell to level 4 with the exp gotten from that daily completion and then checked the tooltip outside after the buff was gone. It might explain why you had higher tooltip on the level 3 spell.

It is possible. Thank you for the explanation.