1M dps? Finally I can be an Excel Warrior.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

Neither area modifiers nor projectile speed modifiers affect the DPS Ball Lightning deals to any enemy. They affect the total damage it takes by dealing the same DPS for longer, since a given enemy is in range longer, but the DPS against any enemy stays the same.

You are talking about the dps (damage per second) of a single skill use. It's like calculating the dps of a single hit of viper strike.

Reduced projectile speed *does* increase the dps of ball lightning significantly, since it increases the damage per cast. Since multiple casts can overlap their damage, you can then multiply the 'damage per cast' by the 'casts per second' to get a much more useful damage per second figure.

PS: calculating the dps of a single skill use would definitely be useful for things like ignite or essence drain, ie: DoTs that don't stack* with each other.

PPS: *inb4 Natahrias says something about emberwake.