Focused Efforts Math

Jordan_Black · March 11

I've seen multiple conflicting explanations here. If in IA I've got let's say 2 Focused Efforts, increasing my status effect damage by 1000%, and then I'm also using that arcanist passive that increases status effect damage by 15% (or say Xanmeer Spellweaver which has a similar number) what's my total increase? 1015%? 1150%? Something else? ESO does math weird a lot, I'm curious for an answer derived from actual testing.

Thumbless_Bot · March 12

1015. Same as say major brutality and continuous attack in cyro.

You have a base. Then get two modifiers. Actually 3 in your example, 500. 500 and 15.

Lets say base is 100... you get an additinal 500% (500) of that plus another 500% (500) of that plus 15% of that (15) for a gramd total of 1115. Not 500%, for a total of 600, then 500% of that (3000) for a total of 3600 plus 15% of that, 540 for a total of 4140. Imagine if it worked like that... I have 😀

tsaescishoeshiner · March 12

Barring the testing you want to see, it would be worth looking into other known damage modifier interactions—I think I read that "damage done to monsters" multiplies other damage bonuses, but I'm not sure how the others compare.

I'm not sure if anyone has specifically tested that passive + Focused Efforts combo (it would be inconvenient to test), but I would assume it works as the other comment describes.

And of course, crits, penetration, and damage taken debuffs would also greatly boost that damage in better known ways.