I'm in agreement with you when it comes to roughing out how to gear, how to spec, and which powers to use in Neverwinter. Napkin math is plenty good enough to make gearing decisions here. My rambling post was to show the OP that the system is more complicated and needlessly so since approximations, as you discuss, work…
This was composed during a couple of breaks throughout the day so I apologize if it is overly disjointed. Take all of this with a hefty grain of salt; things change all the time, both with and without documentation. To (not) answer your questions re: order of debuff application, as far as I am aware, no one on these forums…
Until PF gets fixed, GPF's Defense debuff appears to be working exactly like a Perfect Terror (20% defense debuff, one stack). Gives something to look for in ACT parses until several people that enjoy the numbers game acquire perfect terrors. I know of some threads that demonstrate mob damage resistance percentages. Anyone…
I'll pitch in my 2 zen. All of this is from testing against Mimic target dummies. All Encounter powers that function as an AoE in both a regular and the Mastery slot appear to be affected equally in regards to Evocation, Wizard's Wrath, and Focused Wizardry. Powers affected by Evocation:* Third strike of Chilling Cloud…
Thanks for the reply. Updating the OP to remove concept confusion and conflation. EDIT: On Mimic, I was attacking some Witherers and Giantsouls in Sharandar and could not get my numbers to reconcile with one 15% Defense debuff. Long story short, I am guessing Greater Plague Fire's Defense debuff is acting like a Perfect…
This testing was conducted at 26 intelligence. Comparing the median values of 200 Magic Missiles attacks at 0/5 Learned Spellcaster versus 200 Magic Missiles attacks at 5/5 Learned Spellcaster, there is a 6.25% damage increase. Comparing the median values of 200 Ray of Frost attacks at 0/5 Learned Spellcaster versus 200…
I'm seeing it intermittently. Mashing the cast button seems to exacerbate both the cast animation and getting the cooldown timer to display on the icon. This would be a good thing to make a thread about in the bug forums. EDIT: To clarify, the spell actually is cooling down. Tested by casting, seeing the timer not pop up,…
@vaashie and @stoxbox1: Thank you for testing. I haven't been in any epic dungeons on the test shard so I have no data for mobs over level 60. Attacking level 60 and below mobs out in the world on Mimic shows the 3% mitigation reduction regardless of GPF stacks for me. Assuming the target dummies are behaving the same as…