What is Intensify SUpport Gem supposed to do with Cracking Lance?

At the moment it seems to add 0 damage and just a little AOE on the first and 2nd cast before it becomes a beam. Considering you demo'd with this setup I am surprised.

Path of Building shows it bumbs up damage. In game does not here is a comparison:


No gems, No Charges:


With intensify, No Charges:



No Gems, 4 Charges


Intensify, 4 changes




CL/Light.Pen/Archmage 4 charges:



CL/Light.Pen/Archmage/Intensify 4 charges:

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I don't know, it doesn't feel right.


dit: I didn't a see gem in gem discussions so i posted here.

I don't think intensity buff is calculated in the in-game tooltip. I'm playing fireball and intensity stacks don't change my tooltip either.

Yea I understand damage isnt always in the tooltip, but i can confirm it feels low too through playing it.

https://youtu.be/2oSqq5HnQII?t=563

Atr least one streamer seems to agree.

I think the issue at hand is CL has a built-in intensify,, so your comparison to another spell isn't really comparable.

As its been said intensity doesnt show in tooltip dps so thats that.

Reading the crackling lance description from the reveal it says its works "multiplicatively" with intensify support.

So either its bugged, GGG is terrible at wording and the gem doesnt actually work with it or it does work and the damage increase just isnt being seen. Just because it feels low doesnt mean it isnt working

However, considering how this league has been so far its not too crazy to think its bugged.

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gladiatorpie wrote:

As its been said intensity doesnt show in tooltip dps so thats that.

Reading the crackling lance description from the reveal it says its works "multiplicatively" with intensify support.

So either its bugged, GGG is terrible at wording and the gem doesnt actually work with it or it does work and the damage increase just isnt being seen. Just because it feels low doesnt mean it isnt working

However, considering how this league has been so far its not too crazy to think its bugged.

Feels low means i tested it with other gems that should add less damage and are more effective. I say "feel" low because I don't have access to a combat log to prove it. Nor does anyone.

When i first read the gem description for Cl I assumed it had built-in Intensity Support of some sort, and that plopping in an Intensity Support gem might do nothing, or at least the multiplier would be discounted steeply against this skill because of its claim to already have built-in intensification.

My guess is, it's hand-waving away most of the benefit of outside Intensity support in a way that neither tooltip nor PoB can adequately show.

I will say though that subjective feelings about a spell's efficacy are usually poo, unless you've used the same spell for 5 leagues straight and suddenly it smells funny. Especially new spells like Crack Pants.

I fell into this trap converting my longtime arc users into ball lightning users. The then-newly-buffed ball lightning actually seemed less effective because the slow projectiles and indolent, non-chaining behaviour in packs was less visually satisfying than the insta chain and shatter arc effect. Comparing the two in a level 83 kurgal on an underpowered character definitively sent Arc to the showers.

Usually PoB will tell you why. But to this day PoB cannot tell me precisely how Infused Channelling gives me 20% more dps on Holy Flame Totem when a) the totems can't gain Infusion and b) other things eschew totem sources of damage. I still use it, because it works.