I don’t think I’m understanding the problem fully.

Overpenetration per se does not lower dps. It’s the fact that, under normal circumstances, whatever you did to get that much pen means you aren’t investing those resources in something else that would actually benefit you when you’re at pen cap. If you can’t reinvest your CP elsewhere, that’s definitely a problem. But if you can successfully invest them elsewhere while your pen remains the same, then that’s a bug that only benefits you. It would essentially be free pen while allowing you to spend CP in other nodes. Free pen wouldn’t lower your dps, though, so I suspect something else is going on.

Is it that you’re not able to reinvest that CP? (By which I mean when you put that extra CP from Erosion in another node, does that CP work properly with the new node, regardless of what your pen value says?)

Is it possible you’re running the Lover as part of your dungeon setup, by any chance? 10 points in Erosion will give you about 1k, and I tend to assume magdps have Concentration for 4884. The Lover would add over 4500 in full gold divines, if my math is right, which would put you between 10-11k pen and lead to lower dps on the trial dummy compared to a more effective mundus.

Finally, if you input your current setup into the UESP Build Editor, what is the expected total penetration value?

Shantu wrote: »

@virtus753 Thanks for responding. I'm an idiot. In experimenting with penetration I forgot I set the Mundus on both these toons to The Lover.



Never mind....

Glad you got it sorted! I’ve made that mistake myself often enough...