With some positioning your main beam should be able to hit all targets of an elite pack, meaning that the side-beam advantage only really applies to small whites running around you. Small whites which will probably die on just the moonlight ward would't you agree? If you need the sidebeams for additional APoC procs its a whole different story ofcourse.
it's 240% + your arcane damage. (about 60% or so, maybe higher if you use Gesture/Andarial's.) for about 384% weapon damage to every enemy in range. Combined with Black Hole (and Spellsteal Rune is just gravy) the familiar hits hard. I'll shoot a PM at Loroese; our resident math wizard to see if he as any ideas on this.
The % increases from arcane damage and black hole don't really matter since they also increase the damage of your arcane torrent (which if multiplicative with 10% of sparkflint balances out). I was compared the 10% of sparkflint not the direct dmg of it since it's so small and single target.
Sparkflint doesn't benefit from +Arcane % damage. It's a fire spell.
What I ment was that your + arcane damage boosts your arcane torrent and the 10% from sparkflint boosts that again.
it's 240% + your arcane damage. (about 60% or so, maybe higher if you use Gesture/Andarial's.) for about 384% weapon damage to every enemy in range. Combined with Black Hole (and Spellsteal Rune is just gravy) the familiar hits hard. I'll shoot a PM at Loroese; our resident math wizard to see if he as any ideas on this.
The % increases from arcane damage and black hole don't really matter since they also increase the damage of your arcane torrent (which if multiplicative with 10% of sparkflint balances out). I was compared the 10% of sparkflint not the direct dmg of it since it's so small and single target.
Arcane torrent deals 500 somethingish damage per "cast" meaning that as single target canoneer is a 50% boost.
The more targets you hit with AT the worse the familiar damage gets. Do you think you hit 5 times as many targets with AT as the familiar will hit?
Yes the math is very VERY rough here but it basically comes down to comparisons like this. (Assuming the 10% damage of familiar is multiplicative with other % increases).
And yes I also know I completely ignored the damage that a sparkflint familiar does but again, I'm not giving a number here but just showing you how to determine it yourself. (Also compared to an arcane buffed aoeing canoneer the direct dmg of a familiar is ignorable)
Why the comments about usefull sub lvl 70 weapons? Ofcourse low level weapons are useless. The equivalent of useful low level items are items dropped in low lvl rifts.. Which are EXACTLY the same as the ones dropped in high level rifts.
That's actually a problem I have with the game. A higher level rift should give BETTER gear than lower rifts. No, not a higher chance to get good gear but simply better gear. Then suddenly farming lvl 50-60 rifts isn't a waste of time compared to 42 speed farming.
Take the example from World of Warcraft.. How many people would farm the latest tier if Ragefire Chasm dropped the same gear.
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Petition anyone?
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Single target spells which are worse on single target then the AOE versions. Spell balance 101 :3
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Deflection allows you to face tank a torment higher than you could before.
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Then again... dead demons don't deal damage either so it's probably more effective to just kill your target.
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./jealous hate
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You don't want to be here.
We don't want you here.
Go away.
Everyone happy.
PS: Do you even lift?
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Example:
500% damage AT with +40% arcane damage = 700%
10% sparkflint makes it 770%.
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The more targets you hit with AT the worse the familiar damage gets. Do you think you hit 5 times as many targets with AT as the familiar will hit?
Yes the math is very VERY rough here but it basically comes down to comparisons like this. (Assuming the 10% damage of familiar is multiplicative with other % increases).
And yes I also know I completely ignored the damage that a sparkflint familiar does but again, I'm not giving a number here but just showing you how to determine it yourself. (Also compared to an arcane buffed aoeing canoneer the direct dmg of a familiar is ignorable)
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