Warden's Piercing Cold passive does not provide 12% damage bonus when Ice Staff is equipped [CLOSED]

taugrim · March 26

I compared damage on the tooltip for Force Pulse between gold Ice Staff and Lightning Staff on my Magden. The tooltips should be the same, right?

Piercing Cold gives 12% damage increase with Ice Staff for Warden.
Ancient Knowledge gives 12% damage increase to direct damage with Lightning Staff.

I thought maybe my passives needed to be reset with Update 41 (obviously, they shouldn't), and the tooltips with Ice Staff only went up ~2% when I put 2 points in Piercing Cold.

NoSoup · March 27

Could be a tool tip issue. Have you tested it on a dummy?

virtus753 · March 27

1) The tooltips should be the same separately, but not when you combine them. The tooltip is partly bugged when using Piercing Cold. It reflects the 2% base bonus but not the 10% ice staff bonus.

With an ice staff: 2% base from Piercing Cold + 10% ice staff bonus from Piercing Cold = 12%

With a lightning staff: 2% base from Piercing Cold + 12% lightning staff bonus from Ancient Knowledge = 14%

2) The tooltip when holding an ice staff does not reflect the 10% ice staff bonus from Piercing Cold (a tooltip bug), but the damage certainly seems to.

On PTS I'm seeing the following values for Force Shock on a 6m dummy. I didn't have full pen, so there will be mitigation from the remaining armor on the dummy.

Ice: tooltip 1689, damage 1325

Lightning: tooltip 1888, damage 1349

Inferno: tooltip 1689, damage 1206

The damage done with lightning staff is 1.8% more than the damage done with ice staff, correctly representing 114%/112%.

(For the damage done with the inferno staff, the figure of 1206 represents 102% here due to the +2% base bonus from Piercing Cold.)

taugrim · March 27

Thanks for clarifying