Casting Expertise bugged?!!?

[Rick777]

<p>Casting expertise out of the shadows AA line, the spell buff at rank 5 is supposed to "Increase spell damage and critical damage by 5%" and also "Lowers the casting time and reuse speed of hostile spells by 15%"</p><p>When I apply this buff it doesn't change the cast or reuse speed in the spell description but even worse IT LOWERS THE DAMAGE of the spell!!!</p><p>Example:</p><p>Divine Smite VIII</p><p>without CE buff: 3337-3890 damage</p><p>with CE buff: 3132-3639 damage</p><p>Divine Strike VIII</p><p>without CE buff: 4821-5703 damage</p><p>with CE buff: 4493-5302 damage</p><p>It looks like all the hostile spells have the same issue, is this buff working as intended?  Has anyone else run across this issue and is it only descriptive or does it actually parse bugged like this?  Can a dev look into this please?</p>

[Crismorn]

<p>Are you making sure to not have either stance on while testing that?</p><p>ie.  Make sure heal and offensive stance are both turned off in order to test it, if it still displayers incorrectly pull out a test dummy and check if its just a display error or an actual issue</p>

[Rick777]

<p><cite>Crismorn wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Are you making sure to not have either stance on while testing that?</p><p>ie.  Make sure heal and offensive stance are both turned off in order to test it, if it still displayers incorrectly pull out a test dummy and check if its just a display error or an actual issue</p></blockquote><p>It's weird.  If heal stance is on then casting expertise seems to work and raises the spell damage.  If offensive stance is on it also works.   But if both stances are off then my spell damage gets reduced with casting expertise.  Still in all 3 cases the cast time/reuse time does NOT change.</p>

[Karelyn]

<p>I just checked it out on my templar , and it appears to be working fine for me. A couple of things to note though :-</p><p>A combination of the templar 'Holy Smites' AAs and my gear meant that the spells were all capped for casting speed and reuse even without Casting Expertise. However if I removed all my gear and then did the tests , I got away from the caps , and was able to see an improvement.</p><p>Casting Expertise is a beneficial spell , and so casting it will disable Smite Wrath for 7 seconds. So if you check the spell damage immediately after casting CE it will have gone down. By checking after that delay , I was able to see an overall improvement in damage.</p>