I suspect that the Great Feast gem has bug, as it does not appear to be functioning properly. Specifically, I have observed that the gem’s damage increase effect seems to be additive rather than multiplicative. Compared to the side effects of the gem, its enhancement seems almost negligible, so I believe this should be a bug. What do you think?
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Yes, it’s bugged on multiple levels and also leads to degenerate gameplay.
- It’s not implemented as a global damage multiplier
- It doesn’t work with the heart that reduces essence drain (might be because that one doesn’t work at all)
- The optimal way to play with it is to unequip it between fights because it’s always active unless you’re in town.
Well,hope BLZ will fix that at Aug.9 Path.
Both the damage and the interaction it has with the devious heart to mitigate the drainage appears to be bugged
The Great Feast is increasing the “All Damage” stat by the stated amount. The “All Damage” stat is only a small portion of the normal damage bucket, which is why the Great Feast doesn’t appear to be doing much.
You can observe this by going out of town, clicking on the “Materials & Stats” button on your character page, then scrolling down till you see the “All Damage” stat. Try unequipping and equipping the accessory carrying the Great Feast and you should observe the stat number going down and up.
Is that intended? I dunno, but numerous multipliers (an “X” on the tooltip) are coded to actually increase the “All Damage” stat. If thats not intended then Blizzard has a very sloppy coder, or theres a miscommunication between slaves and slaver coder and guy-ordering-coders-around.
Yeah, it’s a terrible heart. Damage isn’t noticeably better and the Essence drain is super annoying. Trash, like a lot of D4’s itemization.
was really disappointed by this heart. Just using the barber for now. The dmg boost to minions was negligible as its similar to just me having a lvl 6 hellbent commander via a necklace.
Hard to say if tooltip or coding error. Given the costly magnitude of what you give up it would seem more likely to be a coding error.
But similarly Serration says it is additive crit damage but is instead tested to be multiplicative. They seem to screw this up all the time.
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The essence drain heart is specific to the essence drain mobs, not to that heart or basic skill use.
The great feast is working as intended, but because our modifiers for pet damage and overall damage is so low when using pets, its negligible.
If you use it with skirmishers with the crit buff and iron golem, you can see it scale decently but still slower than other specs by a mile
The essence drain reduction didn’t work with the NM affix, either.
Great Feast doesn’t scale any of our damage types correctly. Overpower and pets aren’t exceptions. It doesn’t work multiplicatively with ANY of your damage. Doesn’t matter if it’s a pet, overpower, DoT or bone spear.
Not seeing anything in the patch notes fixing either of these hearts.
Patch 1.1.1 does not mention this heart… I am totally disappointed (also, blighted corpse tendrils does not generate blood orbs) and going to play BG3.
Is it on your bar?
Mine generates them. It’s my ONLY source of Blood Orbs - so I know for a fact it works.