PTR Change - AE

[yarafx1]

" Mage (Forums, Talent Calculator, PvP Talent Calculator, Artifact Calculator)
Arcane
Arcane Explosion Causes an explosion of magic around the caster, dealing [ (Current 1 + 75% )[NEW 75% of Spell Power ] Arcane damage to all enemies within 10 yards. Damage increased by 60% per Arcane Charge. Mana cost increased by 125% per Arcane Charge. Generates 1 Arcane Charge if any targets are hit. Mage - Arcane Spec. 2% of Base Mana. Instant."

If I am reading this correctly, this would completely destroy our AOE ability even with the new ability having our Staff Copy the AE for 20%.

Thoughts?

[gurudox]

I'm not 100%, but I feel like this is just a tooltip simplification. Wouldn't the difference between [1 + 75%] and [75%] just be that 1 damage?

[Rindir]

for this example, let your spell power = 1000
if [1+75%Spell power] means 1 + 750 = 751 then it will do next to nothing.
however, if [1+75%Spell power] means instead (1+.75)1000 =1750 then it would be a catastrophic nerf.
the other possibility is that that 1 is possibly modified by the 240% damage buff with 4 stacks of arcane charge or some other modifier, then it would be less than a 1% nerf.

[gurudox]

That makes sense, but the second seems a little too drastic. Losing the full coefficient from (1+.75)% x 1000 would mean you're down to 750 from 1750. That would be losing ~58% of the damage on AE, but only gaining a 20% mirrored AE, equating to a nearly 40% nerf. I really don't feel like they'd give us a cool new golden trait only to nerf it to uselessness. Our AoE is currently competitive with other classes & specs, so unless all AoE is getting nerfed across the board, this feels like it would be outrageous. I'd be a little more worried if the percent value was changing too, like, changed from 75% down to 65% or 55%.

Checking wowhead, the current spells show that Arcane Explosion does 75% of spellpower, so I'm fairly certain this is just a tooltip cleanup.

[Deckzor]

Yep i checked on PTR and dmg is even slightly higher than on live.