Meteorites from the aspect have always dealt little damage. Didn’t even pay attention to non-crits, only comparing meteorite crits to meteor crits. It was something like 10 times less damage.
But due to not entirely correct translation I attributed that to said 35% being a percentage of 100% damage, not Meteor damage, which was weird to me but in the end I just rolled with it. I.e. if Meteor deals 216% of weapon damage, then Meteorite would deal 35% of 100%, not 35% of 216%.
Turns out it says “Meteorites fall around Meteor, dealing [20 - 35] of Meteor’s damage on impact.”
Sounds good, but it doesn’t change anything. Meteorites still do little damage.
Meteorites don’t scale off of Meteor’s final damage, but some earlier calculation. Even if Meteor’s (and other skills’) numbers don’t match the real ones, I assume Meteorites scale off only those numbers that affect tooltip. So no Elemental Dominance, Aspect of Three Curses or Esu’s Ferocity (albeit this one should apply to both Meteor and Meteorites) and no Searing Heat (which probably also doesn’t apply to Meteorites since it affects “pyromancy skills”, not just any firect fire damage)
I took off Tal-rasha and Starfall Coronet and tried to do some testings, but it didn’t help much as Meteor damage ranged by 2.6 times (lowest being 265449 and highest being 690952) instead of 1.8 so something was off. Meteorites damage on contrary, ranged only by 1.3, but maybe that’s because I got less data with Meteorites.
www.youtube. com/watch?v=fjowGMrO9-g
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
|---|---|
| 458802 | 70179 |
| 513672 | |
| 613733 | |
| 265449 | |
| 430445 | 71546 |
| 316153 | |
| 666369 | 56178 |
| 526962 | 65756 |
| 564493 | |
| 308098 | |
| 581781 | 81283 |
| 67690 | |
| 470430 | 65197 |
| 477420 | |
| 426016 | 75706 |
| 457664 | 77410 |
| 368628 | |
| 586883 | 76171 |
| 393277 | |
| 349283 | |
| 464303 | |
| 591316 | |
| 477810 | |
| 438155 | |
| 508221 | 60962 |
| 690952 | 68154 |
| 629647 | 57356 |
| 651004 | 83927 |
| 674052 | |
| 362595 | |
| 329271 | |
| 506683 | 60047 |
| 62921 | |
| 572064 | |
| 306175 | |
| 510791 | 60714 |
| 87011 | |
| 62463 |
I expected 1.12x1.8x(1/0.35)x1.3=7.5 as lowest difference between Meteor crit and Meteorite crit; and 1.12x1.8x(1/0.35)x1.8x1.3=13,5 as highest.
And from the little data I got, the highest is at least 12. So surprisingly, despite Meteor’s 2.6x range trickery, it kinda fits.
Anyway based on testings I can’t say if Meteorites are missing something else other than 1.12x from Elemental Dominance and 1.8x from Aspect Of Three Curses and 1.3x from searing Heat, but even as little as 7.5x damage difference between Meteor and Meteorites is just way too much.
And why am I comparing Meteor crit and Meteorite crit numbers?
Because hitting near-100% or 100% meteor crit chance is the only positive feature and only silver lining about the terrible Meteor build (not even considering a non-starfall Meteor, it’s a stillborn skill on its own).
And not only Meteorite crit for 10 times less damage, they also miss the 60% crit chance from elementalist aspect on amulet and probably 12% chance from searing heat and the non-crit damage of meteorites is totally negligible.
Buffing Meteorites damage by 28% (from 35% to 45%) isn’t going to solve anything and won’t make it worth to run this aspect.
Make everything that affects Meteor affect Meteorites as well.
Or better yet, make Meteorites part of Meteor itself. Either as part of base Meteor or as one of the updates. Not only will it solve all Meteorites’ damage problem, but it will also be a good first step towards giving life to Meteor.