Nether Tempest AOE double dipping on Dec 8 hotfix

[Komma]

On December 8th, Nether tempest received the following hotfix buff:

Nether Tempest's (Arcane) damage has increased by 10%.

Source: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/165616 ... 12-19-2014" target="_blank

The direct DOT damage was increased by 10%. It appears that there is an unintended (fortunate?) side effect:

The "damage" ticks are the DOT ticks. The "hit" ticks are the AOE ticks. The AOE ticks are hitting for 10% more than the DOT ticks. The character has 3846 spellpower, 54.16% mastery and 1.53% versatility, so the 207 DOT damage ticks already match the 10% buffed value of Nether Tempest, when casted at 0 Arcane Charges:

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3846 * (0.031 * 1.1) * 1.541 * 1.0153 ~= 205.3

This is clearly a bug, but I have no information regarding whether there are plans to fix this.

The developer branch of SimulationCraft has been updated to include this. New releases in a few days will include the change.