Hydra rank and damage bug

monsterdaddy

Lots of problems with the Hydra power which has two parts, the Hydra and the Lava. Hydra is bugged whereas Lava seems fine.

Problems

#1 Hydra R1, R2, R3 all do the same damage. The tooltip ALWAYS shows 125 as the damage regardless of rank. In combat testing, there is no difference in Hydra damage between R1, R2 and R3, it's all the same.

#2 Two important abilities do NOT affect Hydra damage (but work normally for Lava) and I tested and checked in Combat logs on a level 40 with no stats or gear and with no stars:

a) Ranged role.

b) Form stacks (8 Chilled Form stacks, 15% damage buff each, no SS or offense)

So the powers that appears to be working with Hydra is the damage bonus from active offenses and passives (91% was passive bonus from Fiery Form R3 and mixed with the SS bonuses too).

Thanks for looking into this, I hope it's an easy fix.

kaiserin

None of these are bugs, but could use some tooltip improvement.

The Hydra itself is an uncontrollable pet, and its damage will scale from your superstat, any applicable pet related specs, and any buffs applied directly to the Hydra. This is typically not reflected in the tooltip as the bonuses are applied once the pet is summoned.

The pit is not considered a pet, so it scales off of your damage bonuses.

Hydra gains additional heads per rank, so its individual damage does not increase.

monsterdaddy

Thanks Kaiserin, you're right. Forgot about pets vs powers. Everything seems correct.