The Wailing Host Set

New Player Help
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Hey I’m probably having a duh moment but I cannot figure this out. I have the wailing host set and i know what it says: " While this is your only Item Set bonus every Ancient item you have equipped increases your damage dealt by 750% and reduces your damage taken by 4%."

The problem is, I don’t see any set bonus. It IS my only set, in fact no other set items at all, just the two rings. I have 4 ‘Ancient’ legendary items equipped but no set damage bonus at all, in fact the damage goes down from the two legendary rings I currently have equipped.

Why am I so duh right now?

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AFAIK the damage bonus of the LON rings does not show on your sheet damage, only the 4% damage reduction .

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So you just trust that its there and watch the monsters fall?

4

It’s easy enough to test.

5

How would I do that? Seems like its still missing something.

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Just play with and without the rings and see how much damage you do.
4 Ancients will give 3000% damage to all of your attacks. The difference should be quite noticeable.
It could take you up 3 T levels or more.

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Wow you were right. Jumped up quite a bit from that! Still it seems weird that I can’t see the damage.

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Multiplicative damage dealers, for the most part, don’t show on your sheet damage. That is why sheet damage becomes less useful after you reach level 70.

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You can go within the options of the game to the section of shortcuts I think
There is a part where you have the option to choose
and see or choose what type of damage you want to be reflected on the screen
Damage to monsters, their standard of living, your critics or probability, area damage, damage to your character and etcccccc …
Try to see if choosing your, maybe you see it clearer
I personally, I remove all this data to have better vision
:ghost:

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So true, just to expand on this a little…

You need to be particularly careful with the legendary affixes. You might find a weapon giving you a massive 8%-10% damage increase in the comparison, but the skill damage multiplier is 40% lower on the new weapon. In this case, the game is telling the new one is better, but in reality, it is not.

This will happen a lot at level 70 and there is no way in-game to see this.

For new players, this is very misleading. The amount of times I have had to explain this to new peeps is incredible, it doesn’t make sense. They see this juicy ancient Zweihander, showing a whopping 40% dps increase, and are sctatching their heads when I tell them to salvage it.

Possibly the most un-intuitive stat calculation system I’ve ever experienced.

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