Why doesn't everyone ever believe me?
Ok, Three of the pics are of me preparing, showing my gear, and the spellbook.
It says 18,649ish damage or so max.
I start off against Baal, doing close to 27K to one of the archdemon stacks, but yet, doing more than 18,649 to all stacks.
I then do it again from a saved game BEFORE I went into Baal, admittedly it has 81 intellect, since the base damage is 19,000, not 18,649.
In that one, I only do 21000 damage (sorry, hit screensave before the battle log showed it).
I do it again in Reha, I do up to 28,174 damage. Low damage is 12,829.
A few possibilities
- Gloves of the Destroyer does ADDITIONAL post damage boosts that we are unaware of.
- Certain enemies are weak against Astral damage, but I didn't realize it or bother to check?
If Gloves does another 40% on top of the 40% boost, it would sort of explain that.
The gloves clearly affect the spell book description
19000*1.4 ~ 26600. But that is lower than the top damage of 28100. Also, that does not explain why my low damage was 12890 which is far lower than 40% boost on the minimum of around 11000 damage.
So that doesn't quite fly either.
buz, you probably can't see this unless you use the Gloves of the Destroyer. I'm fairly certain the bug or FEATURE is related to having two Gloves of the Destroyer. Ironic that the cheat method cannot break the rules, but the real method can?
Feel free to try to replicate my build using cheat methods and see if the results are the same. I'm a little too lazy to do any more testing on this for now.
Or if someone is really into it, I can provide my saved games.