Nasithice Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Does anyone know if the talent Independent Anarchy in the Sab tree increase the damage of shrap bomb? it counts as a AoE doesnt it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzllanna Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 I believe it does. I don't see any reason it would not increase the damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoyProtocol Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 There was a similar discussion on Sniper forums. From what I understand, it affects the first "hit", but does not affect the DoT. .... Scratch that. While I was looking for a thread to back it up, there is an individual who has done good research into this, testing various talents. Link: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=264102 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elhaim Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 IA does not affect shrap bomb, you would be surpised at how many of our talents and skill tooltips are wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legius Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 (edited) I am not surprised that IA is not affecting Shrap Bomb, although slightly disappointed. The reason being that while Shrapnel Bomb is an AOE effect, it's an AOE effect that applies a DOT debuff to each target, that is then basically treated like a single-target debuff on each target. In the game coding, applying that damage modifier to the debuffs is an added complexity that was probably overlooked (possibly intentionally for balance purposes). Even with abilities like Incendiary Grenade and XS Flyby, they aren't actually debuffs, but rather "pulsed" AOE damage abilities using a fixed area, so that the damage modifier can simply be tacked onto the calculation for each pulse. This sort of a coding issue is the same as appears with another discrepancy as tested by Qisa -- the talent Black Market Equipment does not apply to XS Flyby [no debuff], but does apply to Shrapnel Bomb [debuff]. Edited February 16, 2012 by Legius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravzar Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 (edited) It seems to work for me. I checked this last night by speccing into shrap bomb with the 8% more damage than checked the tooltip it was like around 1900. Then I specced for IA then it was around 2200 on the tooltip. I figured it was working. The tooltip could wrong though. Edited February 16, 2012 by Ravzar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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