I tested and confirmed that the Conceited aspect (X% damage while you have a barrier) is probably not working for the rogue class when a barrier from the Temerity unique item is present:
1.) Disabled Exploit and Tricks of the Trade, removed Penitent Greaves, so there was no bonus damage from crowd control or vulnerable damage being applied. Some % dmg to injured was present from Paragon that I can’t be bothered to respec, but this should average out and does not present any systematic bias since all mobs were attacked from 100->0%.
2.) Lvl 87 rogue, set to WT3 and attacked level 70 ice clan maulers outside of Kyovashad with Blade Shift only–to avoid any bonus damage effects, vuln, etc., and to ensure no variation on close vs. distant damage modifiers.
3.) Discarding any crits or overpowers, the average damage of a few dozen regular-only attacks was 995 with no barrier.
4.) Spamming potions to maintain the Temerity barrier (easy to keep up since lvl 70 mobs did very little damage), the average damage of another few dozen regular-only attacks was 1025. An amulet with a 36% Conceited aspect was present at all times.
The sample sizes of the no-barrier and barrier sets were 32 and 33 respectively. Overall standard deviation was 148 (132 for no-barrier set, 162 for with-barrier).
The p-value from a one-sided t-test is only 0.27, so these differences are not even a little bit statistically significant, and we cannot reject the null hypothesis.
The hypothesis that the 36% damage bonus from conceited is working as intended can be rejected at > 99.999%
During the test, the rogue used had a combined 249.9% damage in the “general damage” bucket from All Damage, Close, Core, Cutthroat, and Dual-Wield. If the 36% Conceited were being added to this bucket, the expected damage multiplier would go from 3.49 to about 3.86 for a 10% damage increase. However, this hypothesis can still be rejected at >99% with the current sample size.
Either way, the conceited buff is almost certainly not working as intended. This is easily reproducible, and also kind of a shame because a working Conceited aspect may provide some utility to an otherwise lackluster unique item and add to build diversity.
Here is my test data:
| No Barrier | With Barrier |
|---|---|
| 1049 | 1356 |
| 1048 | 824 |
| 888 | 1239 |
| 1064 | 1006 |
| 813 | 930 |
| 1235 | 858 |
| 1047 | 1139 |
| 894 | 791 |
| 985 | 1094 |
| 1022 | 963 |
| 744 | 1371 |
| 1134 | 844 |
| 1279 | 1015 |
| 1127 | 1055 |
| 898 | 1058 |
| 956 | 941 |
| 876 | 894 |
| 1087 | 887 |
| 1140 | 757 |
| 963 | 932 |
| 1081 | 1325 |
| 1111 | 1085 |
| 824 | 1189 |
| 979 | 904 |
| 1196 | 1091 |
| 930 | 959 |
| 877 | 1150 |
| 887 | 877 |
| 1067 | 1045 |
| 904 | 1056 |
| 798 | 1151 |
| 924 | 1043 |
| 752 |