Possible bug: Fire Strike's "Fiery Escalation" in additive layer instead of base or multiplicative

thisiscraftaaa

As the title says. I'm marking this one as a possible bug, because it's... entirely possible that Fiery Escalation is meant to be bad for whatever reason, but currently, Fiery Escalation appears to only be applying in the additive layer. For baseline Fire Strike's 25%-per-Fiery-Escalation-stack, or 100% total, that makes Fire Strike push into additive layer DR noticeably just on its own, and combined with a toggleform at max stacks and any good slotted passive, it barely makes a difference. For the Kindling advantage, well... it's supposed to be 10%x4, which it does add up to! In the additive layer! And I get the sneaking suspicion that two extra seconds of setup time shouldn't be adding less than 200 points of damage to a fully-charged Fireball. Is this a very long-lasting bug, considering it was like this way back when I was new to the game, or is Fiery Escalation, both base and adv forms, meant to just be plain bad?

For comparison, the upper picture I'll post below is with four stacks of Fiery Escalation, and the lower picture is without four stacks of Fiery Escalation. Keep in mind that it's taking two extra seconds (technically slightly more) to apply four stacks of Fiery Escalation, with Fire Strike ramping up from 614 to 661 in the tooltip. If we average them out and say 637.5 per, that x1.2 = 765. (765*4)-(637.5*4)=510, whereas the Fireball, on four stacks of Fiery Escalation with Kindling adv, goes from 7,819 to 8,078 (259 difference.) Kindling is supposed to act as a sort of self-rupture for damage spikes like Fireball and Pyre, similar to Ego Leech for Ego Blade Annihilation, but if I just gave an extra rank to Fire Strike instead of going for the whole Kindling rupture setup, I'd gain DPS, despite Fire Strike having awful DPS to begin with (partially due to both base Fire Escalation as well as Kindling-adv Fire Escalation applying in the additive layer.) This is what led me to believe that this might be a bug, and not just the effect in question being intentionally bad.





(Gear is OV sniper gloves, all OV secondaries with Ego/Dex Enh 5s slotted, Qliphoth Precision (Gambler 5/Ego Enh 5/Ego Enh 5) Mastermind's Duster (Growth 5/Ego Arm 5) Fortuitous Energy (Ego Enh 5/Ego Arm 5/Gambler's 5))

kaiserin

Tooltip wise, damage bonuses will typically state if they apply to base damage. Fiery Escalation is intentionally a regular damage bonus.​​