Ranger Frost Spirit bugged! w/maths!

#1 - Sept. 4, 2014, 10:34 a.m.
Blizzard Post

According to https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y8uGM1CGV8g#t=820

Traited Frost Spirit should be applying about a 7% damage increase over time- however, in personal testing against the indestructable golem, it is very clear that this is not the case.

I used longbow with and without frost spirit, at constant range with the Vigorous Spirits trait- attachments 1 and 2 are without Frost Spirit and attachments 3 and 4 are with.

I did some math on the results: PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK ME!

Non-crits:
w/o FS: 15 hits, average 945.13 per hit.
w FS: 13 hits, average 962.92 per hit.

Now, I don’t need a caclulator to tell me that that is nowhere near the 7% increase detailed in the build.

Crits:
w/o FS: 18 hits, 1871.67 average per hit
w FS: 19 hits, 1887.68 average per hit

Again, it’s fairly obvious that there is by far no increase in damage of 7%.

This is completely inconsistent to what the developer guide details!

EDIT: I did account for Opening Strike Vulnerability- I waited until it had faded before taking the screenshots from which I based my calculations.

#52 - Sept. 15, 2014, 10:57 a.m.
Blizzard Post

This is a bug and we are looking into a fix presently. We’ll get it in as soon as we can get it tested and in a build.