Mitisuki Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 I'm a little confused, and maybe I'm misunderstanding something. I thought I would ask here. Powertech gets Hyper Fuel for their Shield Tech spec, which increases fire damage by 6%. This effects Flame Burst, Flame Sweep, and Flamethrower for sure. This completely ignores Ion Cell additional damage, the DoT Ion Cylinder provides with Ion Overload, and the energy damage done by Jet Charge. Vanguard's talent Overcharged Cell Capacitor for their Shield Specialist spec gives 6% elemental damage. Which effects the same three mirror skills. But it also effects it's last talent, Energy Blast, where as Heat Blast is not Fire Damage, Ion Cell's attack, and it's DoT. Storm does Kinetic energy, and I don't know if that's separate, but that still appears to be at least three more damage attacks that get the 6% bonus. So I am curious, am I misreading the tool tips, or are they incorrect? Or is my observation of Powertech's Heat Blast, Ion Cell, and Jet Charge all doing 6% less damage than it's counterpart, Vanguard? I realize 6% is probably minuscule, even geared at 55. But it seems like that's 6% unbalanced in favor of Vanguard. I play both on and off, so this isn't Why is that class more OP than my class! Just seems like a very odd oversight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TACeMossie Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 (edited) I'm a little confused, and maybe I'm misunderstanding something. I thought I would ask here. Powertech gets Hyper Fuel for their Shield Tech spec, which increases fire damage by 6%. This effects Flame Burst, Flame Sweep, and Flamethrower for sure. This completely ignores Ion Cell additional damage, the DoT Ion Cylinder provides with Ion Overload, and the energy damage done by Jet Charge. Vanguard's talent Overcharged Cell Capacitor for their Shield Specialist spec gives 6% elemental damage. Which effects the same three mirror skills. But it also effects it's last talent, Energy Blast, where as Heat Blast is not Fire Damage, Ion Cell's attack, and it's DoT. Storm does Kinetic energy, and I don't know if that's separate, but that still appears to be at least three more damage attacks that get the 6% bonus. So I am curious, am I misreading the tool tips, or are they incorrect? Or is my observation of Powertech's Heat Blast, Ion Cell, and Jet Charge all doing 6% less damage than it's counterpart, Vanguard? I realize 6% is probably minuscule, even geared at 55. But it seems like that's 6% unbalanced in favor of Vanguard. I play both on and off, so this isn't Why is that class more OP than my class! Just seems like a very odd oversight. Ion Cell does energy damage. Energy damage is not boosted by elemental damage boosters. Heat Blast technically counts as fire damage, and as such gets the boost. Kinetic damage is definately not elemental, and as such Storm doesn't get the boost. As such, the talents all do the exact same thing between the 2 classes. Now for the +0.4% absorb on average that VG tanks have over PT tanks cause they have 2 more shots in hammer shots... /nitpick Edited March 19, 2014 by TACeMossie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitisuki Posted March 19, 2014 Author Share Posted March 19, 2014 Ah, I probably should have waited until the morning to do more research, and not looked on a whim. Thank you, I probably just saw Energy and thought Elemental! E's! Thank you for clarifying that. So despite there being differences with everything else, in the case of Heat Blast it -is- considered Fire damage? Tool tip error, I was only half incorrect! But thank you for the response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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