[ORACLE] Nimbus Tree

[dreisina]

I've gotten mixed answers to this...do the % elem bonuses that Heart of Frost and Static Charge (+ cold and lightning) provide go towards a % increase in the dmg from your staff, or only a % increase in the dmg contributed from nimbus? that is, if my char. deals 100 dps on its own and an extra 3 cold damage w/ a Lvl 1 storm nimbus, will my heart of frost (+50% cold damage) add an extra 50 damage to my character ,or only an extra 1.5 (3x0.5)?
Thanks all
This game's the ****

[lothos]

like nimbus, it adds the damage to whatever attack you are using, be it a ternion, melee, or spell.

[dreisina]

seems to me that adding more than 1 pt to nimbus is a waste?

[Weavols]

When your int is 1500+ a little base add goes a loooong way:P max it!

[Metodist]

I've gotten mixed answers to this...do the % elem bonuses that Heart of Frost and Static Charge (+ cold and lightning) provide go towards a % increase in the dmg from your staff, or only a % increase in the dmg contributed from nimbus? that is, if my char. deals 100 dps on its own and an extra 3 cold damage w/ a Lvl 1 storm nimbus, will my heart of frost (+50% cold damage) add an extra 50 damage to my character ,or only an extra 1.5 (3x0.5)?
Thanks all
This game's the ****


the answer to your question is pretty simple, and i think most of us would think it is, when it stands "50%+" it's Your original damage X 0.5 (50% = 0.5 when mulitply) so when it stands 50%, it's not really THAT much.. well it's better than nothing, and it increases your DPS a bit ^^ if u have alot of 50% then your dps will surley move up ^^

[Gabrial]

Your original damage X 0.5 (50% = 0.5 when mulitply)

If its 50%+ should it not be Origional Damage x 1.5 as x 0.5 would half the amount of damage he is doing? :D

You could do Origional Damage x 0.5 + Origional Damage though and its ver easy to get them mixed up as i know. :)

[Codename47]

As long as the attack (spell or staff) is the same elemental group as the bonus then it will multiply the damage ie. a 100 dmg hit from a frost staff will hit for 150 with heart of frost on. Add a +10 frost damage onto it (from a -fix) and you get an extra 15 dmg.

[Galefury]

Yep. One of the most useful skills for an Oracle are Heart of Frost or Static Charge, depending on the element of your staff.

[Fireal]

So the 3 Cold Damage and 1-21 Lightning damage affect both your staff and any spell you cast (ie, Ice Shard?)

Quick question, a tad off topic: I am sure most of you have played Diablo 2, seeing as how Titan Quest is very similar to it (which is one of the reason I love it). However, one small thing is kind of bugging me. Remember in D2, in your Character sheet, near the top, there were two slots that displayed the damage of whatever skill or spell you had on your left and right mouse click, whether it be a Normal melee attack or a spell.

This seems to be lacking in Titan Quest. All the character sheet shows is your Average damage and DPS of your current staff/club/sword, etc that you have equipped. It's not a big deal, but it makes it much more difficult to see the effect Intelligence and skills have on increasing your damage of the spell.

Take my question for example. I was never sure if Storm Nimbus affected only my staff damage and/or my Spell damage.

Is it possible to view your total damage of a spell (Ie, Storm Shards), as in the base spell level damage and any weapon or skill increase?

[Galefury]

The flat bonus (+x cold or lightning damage) doesn't affect spells I think. Just the percentage bonus.

[n8iLLiES]

Whatever the math may be, I have the entire storm nimbus tree maxed out and +3 on top of that (thanks to my amulet and armor). When equipped with a lightning-based staff, the damage increase is stupid high, at least another 400DPS! That's without Eye of the Storm, Unearthly Power, or Ternion Attack accounted for.

For an oracle, you'll want to use a lightning-based or cold-based staff, hands down, because the % increase with lightning/cold damage from the Storm Nimbus buff will compliment that the most, fire-based staves don't benefit half-as much from this buff. The same rule would apply to Conjurer, for example. For a Conjurer you'd want to use a fire-based staff because the Earth Enchantment skill would more greatly compliment that vs. a lightning or cold-based staff. Test this theory for yourself, if you have someone that you can trust to trade staves with. I did this with my buddy, who's a Conjurer and my ultra-powerful lightning-based staff that, spec-wise, is way more powerful than his basic fire-based staff, did LESS damage for him than the wimpy staff he was using.

[Clarity]

Even on normal (level 29 atm) the difference for me with Storm nimbus off is to go from a one hit kill on most standard monsters to 2-3 hits. I just have the modifier maxed (static charge ???) as the base skill didn't seem so rewarding....

I might put more points in it after I have maxed out more usefull skills (Ternion etc).