Rappapart the Darkpoet wrote:
Bard songs are all based on pre-foci values, but are not additive with foci effects.Correct.
Example: 10,000 Fire Nuke, 100% foci, 31% bard song, +500 Damage Bard song = 23,600 hit assuming no crit, weird resistances, and the foci fires for 100% on that nuke. Crits throw things off, but ther's nice tables over at the wizzy forums which will tell you the specific formula.
As for 2nd spire. It was intended to add 500 damage to each damage based spell cast (DoT or DD). On DoTs it was adding it to each tick. It was reported by the bard community when we discovered the issue (about 6 months ago), and we have been awaiting the fix. It isn't a nerf, merely the correction of an unexpected issue arising from "bard code."
It is just intended to add 500 per spell, not 500 per tick.
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