Tested critical damage for Elfborn & Piercing Spear - each state 10% & only grant 5%

Radburn · August 2015

I did some testing last night and while my math isn't super I was able to determine a couple things.

With the Templar passive piercing spear, which increases critical damage by 10% when an Aedric skill is slotted, my critical damage was 55% or 1.55. I did not test what the base critical damage multiplier is, I read it was 1.5 . That would mean 10% is actually a 5% increase for this passive - Is that intended?

I then placed 27 points into Elfborn which indicated it would increase my critical damage/healing by 10%. Accounting for piercing spear my critical damage went up exactly 5% more for a total critical damage multiplier of 60% or 1.6.

I can't see this being a bug, rather a funky calculation that most of us will not be able to comprehend. That's ok with me, but it would be nice for someone at ZOS to clarify this?

Zsymon · August 2015

A lot of CP passives grant either too low or too high bonuses. The math is completely wonky.

Alcast · August 2015

Problem is it calculates 10% from the 50% increased crit dmg, so you only end up with a 5% increase

same on live...and nobody knows why :P

Stalwart385 · August 2015

Alcast wrote: »

Problem is it calculates 10% from the 50% increased crit dmg, so you only end up with a 5% increase

same on live...and nobody knows why :P

I guess there is a difference between adding 10% crit (which would add a flat number) and increasing crit by 10% (which increases your existing number by a %).

Radburn · August 2015

Alcast wrote: »

Problem is it calculates 10% from the 50% increased crit dmg, so you only end up with a 5% increase

same on live...and nobody knows why :P

That makes perfect sense, thank you for clarifying!

paulsimonps · August 2015

Yea that's weird it should be additive so it should if we used basic math give more than 20% by having both. It sounds like its not intended to be like how it is but if it is then its a giant *** move to have it say othewise. Cause 1.5*1.1*1.1 =1.815=81.5% total crit dmg. Sure they could also do this to make it scale up slower: total crit=(base crit*1.1)+(base crit*1.1)+base crit. but even that formula doesn't work here. Needs to be looked at.