Been testing this gem on my crusader, thought it would be a great fit, but noticed something strange.
The gem barely does any damage at all. It's rank 26 for me and is supposed to do 860% damage as lightning every second to enemies for 3 seconds, alright, that sounds like it should be doing good dmg, I mean the smite dmg does 60-100mil, even seen a 120mil crit one with buffs. But my Wreath of Lightning only does 2-4 mil damage? That doesn't sound right, because according to my calculations, it should be doing roughly 20-30 mils depending on my buffs. Where are the missing 20+ mils per tick?
The tooltip says per second, so it should be 1800% base over three second and 2580% for the OP over three seconds. Ticks show at roughly every half second. If it was every three seconds it would be basically useless compared to others.
What ind of lightningdamage boost do you have relative to your holy damage. Are you using a slow heavy hitting weapon or a fast lighter hitting one. Note that DoTs don't get along well with crit and crit damage, so it may be stemming from that.
"15% chance on hit to gain a Wreath of Lightning, dealing 860% weapon damage as lightning every second to nearby enemies for 3 seconds." Definitely should be doing 860% per second, or 2580% over 3 seconds, but it's actually not. Even if the damage would split, it still does the same damage to a single target as with multiple. It should be ticking a minimum of 20mil for me, upto 30-35 mil depending on buffs. Well compared to my smite gem at 3000% doing most of the time 80-100mil+ with my Bane of the Powerful up + akarat etc.
Like I said, it could easily be a damage type discrepancy. Without knowing what you're using it's essentially impossible to tell, and just saying "it should according to my calculations" doesn't help in either way.
Like I said, it could easily be a damage type discrepancy. Without knowing what you're using it's essentially impossible to tell, and just saying "it should according to my calculations" doesn't help in either way.
Well last time I checked, 500% of any elemental type does the same amount of damage, unless you add more % elemental damage to that type. I.e 20% more holy damage on neck should make that elemental type deal more damage then the fire/lightning etc. But pure 500% of that elemental type should still deal the same damage, right?
Edit: Didn't see your precious message, but I have 18% holy damage, which of course boosts my smite gem slightly, still doesn't explain why the lightning gem is doing so low damage. And I´m using a Furnace.
I'm saying you could have +Holy damage but no +Lightning Damage which could account for the major part of that discrepancy. Then you factor in that the per-hit damage is going to be a maximum of roughly 40% of the Smite hits, split over two visible ticks (20% of the smite damage).
So if you have a 2000% damage smite, the hits assuming you have no +% holy damage messing up the calculation, deal 34.4mil at max. However if you have, for example, +60% holy damage it's actually 21.5mil. And if you assume half second tics that's a max displayed value of 10.75mil. Course that's assuming those large smite hits are done without crits.
So. Do you have +Holy Damage? Is your Mirinae above level 1? Are you sure those damage values are without critting?
I'm saying you could have +Holy damage but no +Lightning Damage which could account for the major part of that discrepancy. Then you factor in that the per-hit damage is going to be a maximum of roughly 40% of the Smite hits, split over two visible ticks (20% of the smite damage).
So if you have a 2000% damage smite, the hits assuming you have no +% holy damage messing up the calculation, deal 34.4mil at max. However if you have, for example, +60% holy damage it's actually 21.5mil. And if you assume half second tics that's a max displayed value of 10.75mil. Course that's assuming those large smite hits are done without crits.
So. Do you have +Holy Damage? Is your Mirinae above level 1? Are you sure those damage values are without critting?
I have 18% holy, I know that it's making it smite for a lot more, but I'm talking about the number difference is so huge between the smite gem and the lightning one, it feels like the lightning gems is 260% instead of 860%. My smite gem is at 3080% currently, which is 3.5 more then the lightning gem, but is doing 20 times more damage.
You should be getting 10% of your smites damage per visible tick of your Wreath assuming ticks are 2/second, or roughly 10mil top end, with average around 2-4mil.
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Been testing this gem on my crusader, thought it would be a great fit, but noticed something strange.
The gem barely does any damage at all. It's rank 26 for me and is supposed to do 860% damage as lightning every second to enemies for 3 seconds, alright, that sounds like it should be doing good dmg, I mean the smite dmg does 60-100mil, even seen a 120mil crit one with buffs. But my Wreath of Lightning only does 2-4 mil damage? That doesn't sound right, because according to my calculations, it should be doing roughly 20-30 mils depending on my buffs. Where are the missing 20+ mils per tick?
What ind of lightningdamage boost do you have relative to your holy damage. Are you using a slow heavy hitting weapon or a fast lighter hitting one. Note that DoTs don't get along well with crit and crit damage, so it may be stemming from that.
Edit: Didn't see your precious message, but I have 18% holy damage, which of course boosts my smite gem slightly, still doesn't explain why the lightning gem is doing so low damage. And I´m using a Furnace.
So if you have a 2000% damage smite, the hits assuming you have no +% holy damage messing up the calculation, deal 34.4mil at max. However if you have, for example, +60% holy damage it's actually 21.5mil. And if you assume half second tics that's a max displayed value of 10.75mil. Course that's assuming those large smite hits are done without crits.
So. Do you have +Holy Damage? Is your Mirinae above level 1? Are you sure those damage values are without critting?