They answered my ticket thanking me for bringing the bug to their attention, so theres a plan to change either the toltip or the damage atleast.

you read so slow you can't interpet fly text? i will cry a single silver tear, just for you

Ok so it seems like its rather underwhelming across the board then, and the damage cant really compare to the alternatives, although this ones required for tanking, so that might be why it does so much less damage. If this is the damage its supposed to do i really hope they fix the tooltip. Hopefully the tooltip is right though and they fix the damage

anyone tried this with vanguard? i asked in the vanguard forum but no replies in 24 hours. Probably the same but might not be

bump including link to powertech discussion on the topic, where there is pretty much consensus about the ability being bugged/broken: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=94481 Someone playing shield tech vanguard pelase test it out

Yeah im waiting until this gets fixed, until then i guess ill h ave to play AP/PT. ST revolves so much around ion cylinder, really takes away the fun when it doesnt live up to what it says.

im curious if you get the damage from ion cylinder? at the lower levels of this skill it does maybe 1/4 of what the tooltip says and 1/6 of incindiary cylinder. i realise you get a slow as well but the damage just seems to be very lacking from it, doing nowhere near whats advertised.

Ion cell damage definately seem bugged, or is it the tooltip? I just got ion cells counterpart on my powertech and it does nowhere near the damage stated in tooltip, about 1/4 of what is stated which is ridiculous even with mitigation taken into consideration. Can this be confirmed by any vanguards? easy way to test it out is to put companion on passive and only using normal blaster attack, the only yellow damage will be from ion cell. Thanks in advance and hopefully this catches biowares attention so it gets fixed.

it is indeed broken, extremely easy to test, just put pet on passive and hit with only blaster. Its for a franction of what it should, and compared to flame cylindeer that nets me about 160 damage from 3 ticks thisone does 30 damage once, meaning this is indeed a bugged ability and not a bugged tooltip. Hopefully it will be fixed asap