IlleglWpns,Jul 9 2003, 09:08 PM Wrote:The bramble runeword is broken. Reports from the 1.1 beta forum say that it mistakenly adds %1000 poison damage.Those reports, while having some foundation, are actually a result of some miscareful calculations.
As Lucian noted, his poison nova lasted 10 seconds now instead of 2 (well, probably slightly less). Bramble indeed adds 172% or whatever it is stated on it, and NOT 1000%. But all the new enh% damage to poison also increase duration of the poison skills. So 200% enhanced poison damage will give you 3 times as much damage per second, and also increase duration 3 times. So while the damage per second is still only 3 times as high, the increased length makes the total damage per single shot 9 times as high (but again, the poison damage per second is only 3 times as long). This is what we see reflected in the character screen, since the screen shows total damage per each shot.
Since the increased duration matters little, at least in necro's damage dealing abilities, the effective poison damage incresse is about 3x. And according to Lucian, his poison nova was doing about 4k damage per second. Compare this, to say, amazon, who probably can do 4k now per volley with multishot, and fire it faster then 1 shot per second. But the fire and forget is nice I guess. Is it overpowering? I guess up to people to decide.