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Learned Spellcaster : is it worth it?
deepscythe
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 0 Arc User
I wanted to respec but just not sure if i should take Learned Spellcaster this time since as per one of the topics here that skill has been fixed. Does anyone have like a breakdown on how much damage it gives when 5/5?
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If it is worth it depends if you want the feat to increase "Area effect spells" which are : tabbed chill strike, shield and steal time (ice storm too I think). Those are awesome spells but not your only source of damage so... tough choice.
Consider the +2/4/6% damage for Cold/Arcane feats. You either limit your power selection, have some powers not get bonus damage or spend 2/4/6 points to get that bonus for all your powers (which is equivalent to Learned Spellcaster's 1 point = +1%). The AoE feats currently only affect 4 powers, so you'll have a limited amount of powers get a boost.
+HP, -Threat, and Stamina on dodge are all only useful to fairly specific builds.
Prestidigitation is currently the only real competitor to Learned Spellcaster, and that's a choice between personal damage and team performance.
At 2268 recovery, +1% = +20 = +0.1%
At 2640 critical strike, +1% = +19 = +0.1%
+1% Power gives next to nothing but other classes seem to work differently
It's low but applies on 3 or 4 useful stats and 5 people... it competes well with +1% damage I must agree.
These are low stats though, how does it fare at higher values, with hard and soft caps ?
Focused Wizardry currently affects tab Chill Strike, Shield Pulse, and Steal Time and gives a 3% damage boost to those spells per point. Thus, as long as at least 1/3 of my total damage is originating from those spells, it is a DPS increase to take that feat of Learned Spellcaster. I have parsed a lot of my dungeon runs, and I typically observed tab Chill Strike accounting for roughly 25% of my damage when used during a full run, Shield Pulse anywhere from 15% to as much as 61% depending on the dungeon and strategies used, and Steal Time anywhere from 13% to 23%.
Prestidigitation can be good if not for the steep diminishing returns that are easily reached by all classes. 1% to ratings equates to +100 stats for a 10k GS player. As an individual, this is still pretty bad even ignoring the DR, but it also affects your party members which increases the value to around +500 stats per point per group. Unfortunately, DRs greatly reduce the value of all stats except power which hurts this feats value. As GSs keep increasing and/or in groups that are stacking power this is probably the best feat available.
Do you have proof of this? Did you actually test it and saw a flat 5% damage increase? Because since the start of Beta, people have been saying that it adds 5% of your current Bonus, not a flat 5% on top of it.
I have 26 int (+16%) so I guess it is multiplicative with int