07-23-2003, 02:26 PM
+Skills DO add to base skills.
+Skills DO add to base skills that grant Synergy bonuses to other skills.
+Skills do NOT add to Synergy bonuses.
Synergy bonuses work on the base skill's TOTAL level, not just the base level.
That is why the +skills ramped the damage so much. If a synergy is granting +5% damage per level, and the synergy skill has a BASE slvl of 10, then you're getting +50% damage. If you have slvl 10 Fireball, for example, the base damage would be 84 - 104. With the synergy bonus, that's 126 - 156. With +5 skills, that would boost Fireball's BASE damage to 150 - 175, and with the 50% damage synergy bonus, that makes the total damage 225 - 262.5 - a very hefty increase.
So, +skills work on base skills, and thus affect the base values for those skills. They do NOT work on Synergies, but since Synergies work on the base values (which ARE affected by +skills), you get a partial and indirect synergy bonus from +skills.
+Skills DO add to base skills that grant Synergy bonuses to other skills.
+Skills do NOT add to Synergy bonuses.
Synergy bonuses work on the base skill's TOTAL level, not just the base level.
That is why the +skills ramped the damage so much. If a synergy is granting +5% damage per level, and the synergy skill has a BASE slvl of 10, then you're getting +50% damage. If you have slvl 10 Fireball, for example, the base damage would be 84 - 104. With the synergy bonus, that's 126 - 156. With +5 skills, that would boost Fireball's BASE damage to 150 - 175, and with the 50% damage synergy bonus, that makes the total damage 225 - 262.5 - a very hefty increase.
So, +skills work on base skills, and thus affect the base values for those skills. They do NOT work on Synergies, but since Synergies work on the base values (which ARE affected by +skills), you get a partial and indirect synergy bonus from +skills.
Roland *The Gunslinger*