So it's a pretty well known fact that Twisting Path is a rather interesting skill in the theory crafting community. It has a lot of identity issues based on what the heck it really is in terms of a damaging ability. The tooltip suggests it's a Damage over Time effect, or DoT for short, as it deals damage in set increments of 1 second over a period of time (11.5s total). Yet when we begin investigating the skill at a deeper level, there are a lot of inconsistencies. The video below shows some testing trying to peer into how it operates, and what implications it holds with it. This is out to you Zenimax, what is this skill's intention?

https://youtu.be/mvHRX3y55gE

Sadly I can't answer any of the questions of what it really is meant to be, I'm not on the balance team (although I aim to be!) and don't have access to the internal coding. Regardless, I hope this helps Zenimax see what's going on and they can investigate further without taking stabs in the dark.

Some tags for attention from the devs; @ZOS_RichLambert @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @Wrobel