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Area Damage and Multipliers
Nubtro made a post over at the official forums on something he found out while testing Rend and the Area Damage affix. He discovered that apparently a bug prevents some multipliers are not working properly with that affix. Something to keep in mind for those who like to run that affix as a bonus damage multiplier. Read a preview of the post below, or the entire thread here.
While testing Rend Bloodbath and Area Damage, I noticed something weird. The Rend ticks (every 12 frames), substracted from monster health bar numbers (not the displayed ones you see every 48 frames), only dealt 1/6 of estimated Area Damage.
This didn´t make sense at first, but then I noticed I had Wastes (2) set bonus equipped, which is a 6x Rend damage multiplier, so maybe Area Damage was unaffected by that.
So I made a non Wastes (2) test with an unboosted Rend and there Area Damage worked just fine, cause there was no Rend buff.
I was chatting with page about this and we were wondering next if it only applies to the Wastes (2) multiplier or to other multipliers as well, so I began testing IK6 with Rend and then with other skills as well.
Long story short:
Wastes (2) Rend = 1/6 of Area Damage
IK6 + Insanity with Weapon Throw = 1/3 of Area Damage
IK6 + with Weapon Throw = 1/2 of Area Damage
Area Damage seems to be unaffected by certain separate multiplicative damage bonuses. (continues...)
1-70 in a Minute
DatModz uploaded a video showing some incredibly fast leveling session. Granted, he had 3 players helping him and probably some pretty high-end gear that's unatainable for new players, but still an impressive feat, and a very fun video to watch. Check it out!
But still close enough? it's meant more to be a fun little video than a serious one. I'm sure with some optimal gear and setup it's possible to do it even faster than that.
Oh I know, it's even in his video comments iirc. Before watching this I didn't even know that cows wielded that much xp. Pretty interesting watch
In addition to area damage I don't think legendary gem damage is scaling with set bonuses either. Meaning damage listed at % weapon damage doesn't get boosted by Tal's 6-piece bonus for example.
Thanks for posting this video. Now Blizzard has a new thing to nerf. I hope you're feeling really good about yourself right now.
Are you talking about the fast leveling video? I doubt that would ever be considered an issue and be patched. It requires the insanely rare Cow Rift, 3 players willing to powerlevel and the 4th player to have a high level Gem of Ease and a Hellfire amulet. It's faster to just powerlevel the guy than search for a Cow Rift itself I wouldn't worry about it.