Way too high Off Hand Crit Damage Bonus

all the shield skills seem to miscalculate crit damage boni, both skills in the image above use the supercritical support gem to extrapolate the difference

I suspect it uses the damage bonus twice (517x5.17=2673), its not a visual bug either, i managed to crit with the barrier skill for about 300-400k.

without the support gem the boni are 417 and 1739, so still squaring the crit bonus :)

is it possible to get an update if that "bug" is working as intended? dont want to make a build based on a bug :)

This actually is happening for all 'offhand' based attacks - when dual wielding your offhand specifically is receiving a squared critical damage bonus, and actually Pathfinders 'concoctions' ascendancy skill also is coded like an offhand attack, presumably for technical reasons, and it also does this.

Personally, it would be hard to convince me that this isn't a bug, it's just something that would be really simple to accidentally do, and the damage scaling that is possible with exponential growth like this is just really silly, and very bad for balance. If crit damage is exponential, then you kind of just have to focus everything in your build around crit because nothing else will provide even remotely the same value.

Whatever the case, very few people seem to know about it, so it may take awhile to get addressed.

it gets even more weird, equipping a warpick raises the crit damage correctly if equipped in the main hand (while dual wielding) but doesn't work in the off hand slot.

It also doesn't change the bugged squared multi if equipped in the main hand though.

so apparently it overwrites the offhand-crit-damage with the squared base of the main hand? strange....



little bit busted, kinda easy to get to a multiplier of almost +10000% ...
in the pictures the ascendancy passive "gore spike" is not included (around +100 increased crit-damage multiplier), which would translate into +969% or +9390% damage multiplier respectively xD