HippyKnight
04-04-2007, 06:12 PM
<p>Ok so I hadnt got an upgrade of any kinda for a while so last week I decided to lash out and buy these boots for 80plats or so. They are crafted fabled boots that require a drop from Emerald halls. The effect on them reads as follows:</p><p>'on a successful spell attack this spell has a 10% chance to cast powerfont on caster. Lasts for 7.0 seconds. - On the next damaging hostile spell, Powerfont will increase the damage by 10%. </p><p>Ok so they are quite similar to the wand of crystalized plasma except its 10% instead of 8 and rather than providing the bonus over an entire 12sec span it provides it only to the next spell. I figured 10% chance to give 10% extra dmg = 1% extra in total .. it is a slight upgrade to the 2% crit bonus I was getting as a set bonus from my old boots. However it does not work as described and this is how I tested it: </p><p>Firstly I removed all my items with +dmg adorns etc so they wouldnt get in the way. (hence lower int)</p><p>Secondly (as a wiz) I have brainstorm active which provides a constant 8% dmg bonus, this can be turned on and off by equiping a staff (it requires an empty secondary). The 8% also provides a nice comparison to the supposed 10% from the boots. </p><p>Then I went to a lowbie zone and killed a couple of hundred greys trying to get it to proc (actually I'm not so sure the proc rate is as described either but that is not why its broken)</p><p>Below is a table of the damage listed on the decriptions of the spells when firstly neither is active (with staff). Then with brainstorm active (wand). Then with powerfont has procced and no brainstorm (staff again). </p><p> none | brainstorm | brainstorm% | powerfont | powerfont% | maxtrgts | ticks ice nova 4889-9080 5281-9807 8% 5378-9988 10% 1 1 ice shld 886-1083 957-1169 8% 886-1083 0% 1 3* incap 1604-2673 1732-2887 8% 1711-2851 6.6% 1 1 fusion 6747-11245 7287-12145 8% 6969-11620 3.3% 3 1 bol 1994-3703 2154-4000 8% 2194-4074 10% 1 1 sstrike 772-1433 833-1548 8% 823-1529 6.6% 1 1 rending icls 96-179 104-193 8% 98-182 1.8% 1 7 s-tempest 772-943 833-1019 8% 772-943 0% 1 7 ice flame 483 521 8% 515 6.6% 1 2 firestorm 1083-2012 1170-2173 8% 1107-2056 2.1% 8 1 glacial-wnd 496-920 535-994 8% 499-927 0.6% nomax 4 elect-flash 223-414 239-445 8% 224-417 0.6% nomax 4 fry-convuls 105-176 114-190 8% 107-178 1.5% 1 8</p><p>As you can see brainstorm works properly .. 8% increase on everything whereas the powerfont proc which _says_ 10% provides a widely varying amount of % increase. If you look closer it seems that after the % is calculated the extra dmg is scaled again in the same way +dmg adorns are scaled. As in it is scaled according to dot ticks, max aoe and cast time. And also provides 0 extra dmg to things like surging tempest for some unknown reason. </p><p>This is bizzare and surely a bug since it is a % based item so it is essentially being scaled twice! Surely like brainstorm 10% should mean 10%. </p><p>Currently I'm just going back to my legendary set boots for the 2% crit and hoping these will be fixed at some point. If not hopefully this post will prevent others from blowing a big pile of plats on this broken item. </p><p>PS. oh and also when testing it I never saw a duration above about 5.7 seconds while it says 7.. dont know if this is a latency issue or not .. would be nice if us laggy types had a chance to react to it proc'ing so we can change the next spell we cast.. /smiles</p>