[Focus Magic] Is it just me or does the second sentence not make since. Like it needs a coma or two. How does the target critically hit your Intellect?
You didnât read the entire line. "When the target critically hits your Intellect and chance to critically hit with spells is increased by 5% for 10 sec. " It means when the person you cast it on scores a critical hit, you get in intellect and crit buff.
Yes it could use a comma but cherry picking part of it and ignoring the rest makes no sense. Not sure if youâre trolling here but if you are, 3/10.
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Yeah it should be written, âWhen the target critically hits, your Intellect, and âyourâ chance to critically hit with spells is increased by 5% for 10 sec.â
Trolling wouldnât be the word I would use. Just trying to put it out there that Iâm a writer and I see things that most non-writers donât see.
Also, how much does your you Intellect go up. Thatâs not really clear.
Now you are actually trolling.
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It literally says âyour intellect and chance to critically hit with spells is increased by 5%.â
I get that the wording is grammatically substandard but come on man youâre being purposefully obtuse here.
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Possibly⊠but you left out the part where it sounds like your intellect is being critically hit.
There was also something with the Alexstraszaâs Fury where it says, âDragonâs Breath always critically strikes for 50%⊠increased critical strike damage and contributes to Hot Streakâ
I sounds like 50% of the time it works every time.
It should say, "Dragonâs Breath always critically strikes, increased critical strike damage by 50%, and contributes to Hot Streak.
These are things that are right on the surface. These arenât small time quest that youâre suppose to skim over. Youâre suppose to understand what the talents do so you can play the game well.
If you cast Focus Magic on someone (1 way), they get 5% Crit. Every time they crit, you get 5% crit and 5% int for 10 seconds.
If you swap Focus Magic with another mage, you both get 10% crit and 5% int.
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I understand how it works now. The reason for this post is that the writing should be changed so people could better understand.
With Shadowlands we all got free level 50âs, if people are going to run alts with classâs theyâve never played before, player base would have a lot less grief if they understood what there talents and abilities did.
This is wrong.
There should be only one comma since the list only contains two items and the effect is shared across both.
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In reality, Focus Magic does nothing, because no takes that talent.
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Thatâs not entirely true. There are some decent Frost parses (for Frost that is) that run it, itâs just nowhere near as popular as RoP or IF because it requires another Frosty in the raid and no one at that level is running two Frost Mages on anything past 1-2 fights.
I have to admit I also was confused by the wording of this. OP mentioned theyâre a writer and they interpret things differently - I also write (academically, not commercially) and find that WoW spells/abilities are often written poorly, ambiguously, and in such ways that I have to look them up or test them out to actually figure out whatâs going on.
Just one example along these lines, âYour crit is increased by 5%.â I read that as increasing my crit by 5% of what itâs currently at, so if I was at 20% I would now be at 21% crit. But, no, it actually straight up adds an additional 5% to your current crit value so 20 turns into 25%.
It is ridiculously good on 2 Frost mages swapping it, produces better DPS than RoP
WoW has a lot of writing problems with abilities. The exact same wording is used for abilities that grant multiplicative and additive bonuses, and commas are arenât nearly common enough. The grammar is just awful.
The focus magic description has a multiplicative int bonus and an additive crit bonus in the same sentence, and the wording does nothing to inform the user that the bonuses are calculated differently.
Ideally the ability would be worded as:
Grants the target an additional 5% spell critical strike chance for 30 mins.
Cannot be cast on self. Limit 1 target.
If the target of your Focus Magic critically strikes with a spell, then you gain 5% increased intellect and an additional 5% spell critical strike chance. This effect lasts 10 seconds.
They really should standardize the wording of abilities. Usually games specify if a stat bonus is additive by adding the word âadditionalâ before the mentioned bonus. Then players know that anything which does not use âadditionalâ is a multiplicative bonus. WoW is just inconsistent with its wording.
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Caveat emptorâthere are effects in the game like this which freely change the tooltip meaning between nominal and scalar values (in @Bignfatâs terms, additive and multiplicative). Notorious examples are the leech Corruptions from 8.3 â an 8% leech corruption, though denoting âincreases you leech by 8%â, actually increased your leech RATING by 8%.
It wouldnât matter for some things too. No matter how well the tooltip is written, there will be implementation nuances which someone had to tinker with and figure out, before trying to explain in standard language (let alone fit it all in a single tool âtipâ). And once you get into the whole Gödel incompleteness thing and recognize that language is predicated on a set of axioms, all bets are off (as the objects of language likely fail to adequately describe language per se).
Versatility Problem
Quick plug on the additive vs. multiplicative thing⊠They donât understand how to manage versatility because the damage reduction is a flat âhalf of versatilityâ. This means it gains exponentially as it approaches 100%. To fix, they added the secondary dampening (and pushed vers inflection back toward 40% damage reduction - or 80% vers). What they didnât see is this dampens the damage components of secondaries more heavily than the damage reduction of vers, so theyâve added additional accidental damage reduction for everyone⊠Instead, the damage reduction function can be rewritten as a multiplicative benefit for damage reduction, so the bounding of the function is 0 â inf. instead of 0 â 1. That is:
dr= 1-(1/(1+.5*MAX(vp,0)));
dr : damage reduction,
vp : vers percent
Been a while since I checked the math, but fairly certain this is multiplicative regress.
That a forum post was made to question grammar when everyone clearly understands how the spell works is proof some people have too much time on their hands.
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