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Question about flat damage increases
Skullstachio
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I know of a few sources of flat damage increases, such as the Maelstrom Two-Handed Weapon "merciless charge" (post update 39) which grants up to 560 flat damage to all your direct damage attacks and draugrkin's grip from unhallowed grave which grants up to 330 flat damage done for all attacks.
And there is a debuff variation (stagger debuff exclusive to dragonknights for now.) which stacks up to 3 times and causing the target to take 195 extra flat damage from all sources, which is different application wise.
But what I ask, is where does the flat damage get added in? does it get added in "before" percentage buffs and other factors, or "after"?
I ask this because if it is added in "before" buffs and percentage increases, it turns out to be somewhat detrimental on abilities that deal high direct damage, not so much for DoT abilities and effects as damage each tick tends to be low when it's overall damage is divided by the number of ticks dealt over time.
And there is a debuff variation (stagger debuff exclusive to dragonknights for now.) which stacks up to 3 times and causing the target to take 195 extra flat damage from all sources, which is different application wise.
But what I ask, is where does the flat damage get added in? does it get added in "before" percentage buffs and other factors, or "after"?
I ask this because if it is added in "before" buffs and percentage increases, it turns out to be somewhat detrimental on abilities that deal high direct damage, not so much for DoT abilities and effects as damage each tick tends to be low when it's overall damage is divided by the number of ticks dealt over time.
If you see me anywhere. Know that I am sitting back with a bag of popcorn, watching as ESO burns the goodwill of its player base with practices that only disrespects the players time like it did to me and many others...
If a game does not respect your time, best thing to do is move on from it and find something else.
If a game does not respect your time, best thing to do is move on from it and find something else.
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Arthtur✭✭✭✭✭
✭Those flat bonuses are added before anything so they will be affected by things like penetration (or lack of it rather), % bonuses, crit.
As this is a flat bonus it wont be affected by bonuses that increase your WD/SD or max resources (MA 2H is exception as it scales of WD/SD).
To get the most of this "buff" u want to deal as many instances of damage per second as u can.
DoT hitting every 2s will benefit from it every 2s.
DoT hitting every second will benefit from it every second.
This definitely isnt detrimental. Every kind of buff helps. Like even if skill hits for 10000, it will still be better if it hits for 10195 thanks to the buff.
It just not every type of build will get as much out of it. A build that hits 10x+ per second? Thats a really nice buff. A build that hits 5x per second like HA build? U could get something better.2