[FIXED] [Mage][Arcane] Amplification problems

[Pinocchio Evreiesc]

WoW Freakz spell link: Amplification
Bug description: There is something very strange happening when you use the amplification talent. Between 3 to 5 of the missiles fired deal less damage. Its not always a fixed number i dont know wtf is happening.

For example in the screenshot below you will see the following:
-I dont have erosion so damage is fixed.
-I fished for a missiles proc, and before casting missiles i dumped all stacks of arcane charge i had with barrage
-Then i cast missiles (rule of threes procd), the first 3 of the missiles did 56872 damage each (one was a crit of 113744)
-The remaining 5 missiles did only 38665 damage.

@Quicksand
So what is happening? Cause i cant understand, i thought at first that the 3 extra missiles fired by rule of threes just dont get boosted by amplification but its not the case. Its just random, and sometimes destroying a good chunk of the missile damage? Its not always fixed the amount of missiles that deal less damage, in this case with the screenshot it was 5, but before i took the screenshot i had an instance where only 3 of the projectiles did less damage.

Proof:



Here is a cast with 2 charges, and 3 charges, same thing happening.
At the 2 charges cast 1 missile did correct damage the other 4 did less.
At the 3 charges cast 2 missiles did correct damage and the other 3 did less.

[pinka]

Bump? This bug is real, can someone reply?

[Seyrox]

I think this is because of haste, a guildmate tested it and said it was from haste. Everytime his Chronoshard procced Arcane Missles damage screwed. Can you retest this @Fhuur?



Demonolgy Warlock Guide 5.4.8

[Pinocchio Evreiesc]

i cant dont have chrono shard :S

[nEwBsTyLe]

with amplification http://i.imgur.com/aIDcPUn.jpg
without amplification http://imgur.com/a/DZN3I

first time i was think is from haste but in first print i dont have crono shard proc on me and still happen

[pinka]

newbstyle did : 35893 then 52795 (with amplification) , which is about 48% increase..47% to be exact (4 charges from talent would give that much now)
but then he did 46898 then 59369 (without amplification) which is 26% increase, which got me confused..

Fhuur did: 38665 > 56872 47% increase then 56463 > 74466 32% increase ; both times with arcane amplification

http://www.askmrrobot.com/wow/theory/mechanic/spell/arcanemissiles?spec=MageArcane&&version=7_1_5_23420 sais:

Damage
= 0.443 * TotalSpellPower * TotalDamageMultiplier * (1 + 0.02 * ArtifactTraitRank(AegwynnsFury))
if HasTalent(Amplification)
= Damage * (1 + (0.72 + MasteryValue(MageArcaneDamage,false)) * BuffStack(ArcaneCharge))
if not HasTalent(Amplification)
= Damage * (1 + (0.60 + MasteryValue(MageArcaneDamage,false)) * BuffStack(ArcaneCharge))

Conclusion, NOT working as intented!

I really really hope Quicksand can enlighten us in this matter. Thanks

p.s. why is this still in pending and not in confirmed? i think proof is enough.

[pinka]

1) http://imgur.com/a/hIYFh

2) http://imgur.com/a/9PvLV

came back with more proof!

1st one is taken at 0 charges
second one at 1 charge
third one at 4 charges

none of these times, arcane missiles did the exact damage, always some higher , some lower..

as for the second photo:

i did that test with 0 items on! naked

4 arcane charges to get am procs, dumped with barage (which did some aoe)
then did missiles with 0 stacks > got 2 missiles only wtf lag
then did missiles again with 1 stack > got 5 procs

and finaly did 4 more arcane blasts toget 4 charges and did missiles 1 time:

as you can see none of the missiles did the exact same damage as the other..

please move to confirmed!

[Quicksand]

Pinka, do you use Erosion and/or Incanter's Flow? that would explain such a big fluctuation.

@Pinocchio please bring screenshots from your talents/honor talents/gear. I am testing this both on my local server and on live, with and without talents/artifact traits, I deal constant damage. nothing is changing at all

[Quicksand]

@Pinka come online if possible, also let me know your ingame name

[Quicksand]

Made dozens of tests with @pinka, I am 99% sure I fixed the fluctuation. I'll mark it as fixed (because of some reason the topic is bugged out and even though it's not locked, people can't respond here), so if it will be the same after the next restart, create another topic please.