Something seems to be wonky about how the spell is calculating damage. It is dealing MUCH more damage than the tooltip seems to state. My Wizard is not high enough to have any glyphs for it, but the 155% is greatly outperforming my 228% Obliterate Arcane Orb. What am I missing about this spell?
Yes, it's 155% weapon damage per tick. If you have 1.6 attacks per second, each second you'll see about 240% weapon damage or so tick up as damage. The spell actually does continuous damage and just reports damage every second (approximately). With a fast weapon, you'll see bigger than expected numbers. With a slow weapon, vice versa. With only 1 attack per second, every time disintegrate ticks damage you'll see 155% weapon damage, whereas every time you cast arcane orb you'll see 240% (or however much it is) but in the same time you'll do the same (sort of, it's complex in reality) damage, assuming you cast them both as many times as possible in the same time. Well, it's still more complicated than that, but that's the general idea.
To reiterate: fast attack speed, bigger than expected disintegrate because of how it does damage vs reports damage. slow weapon speed, less damage showing on each reported tick (sort of, but it's more complicated than that, good rule of thumb however)
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... not complaining, mind you, just wondering
To reiterate: fast attack speed, bigger than expected disintegrate because of how it does damage vs reports damage. slow weapon speed, less damage showing on each reported tick (sort of, but it's more complicated than that, good rule of thumb however)