05-06-2004, 05:12 AM
Your calculations are wrong.
If we assume you have 240 base damage, and if we assume you have 20 points in synergy, and if we assume you have a +160% bonus from fire mastery, the damage calculation would be:
240 * (1 + 20 * .14) * (1 + 1.6)
This gives 2371 damage. Your wrong calculation would give 1296.
If you put points in fire bolt, you'd have to increase the 20 to however much synergy you really have. You'd also have to change the base damage and fire mastery bonus to however much you really have. Assuming that you'll have no +skills gear at all renders the calculation meaningless. Note that +skills doesn't boost the synergy.
If we assume you have 240 base damage, and if we assume you have 20 points in synergy, and if we assume you have a +160% bonus from fire mastery, the damage calculation would be:
240 * (1 + 20 * .14) * (1 + 1.6)
This gives 2371 damage. Your wrong calculation would give 1296.
If you put points in fire bolt, you'd have to increase the 20 to however much synergy you really have. You'd also have to change the base damage and fire mastery bonus to however much you really have. Assuming that you'll have no +skills gear at all renders the calculation meaningless. Note that +skills doesn't boost the synergy.