Expanse + Contagion

Noticed while fiddling with some sockets, running Contagion empty, it has a 1.7 Meter Spread Radius. Expanse added to it brings it to reporting a 2 Meter Spread Radius.

However, Expanse is 50% More Area, this should bring it to 2.55 Meter Spread (which I assume would be reported only as 2.5). So somethings going on here, either it's not reporting correct or it's not applying correct, or Expanse (or Contagion) has the wrong numbers affixed to them in some place.

If the issue is the game only reports fractions while 1 or Less, I'd suggest always including fractions for ranges and Areas up to the first tenth for clarity to the player. If another effect is at play (Contagion has some sort of reduced bonus to area), I'd suggest including it in its description some where, or a hyper linked effect if it's something that say, all autospreaders do, or something all DoTs do.

Allow me to review your math.

1.7 m base radius = 1.7² * π (pi) meters area, which is ≈ 9.1 m.
9.1 m area * 1.5 (to account for expanse) ≈ 13.6 m.

13.6 m area should be a circle of roughly 2.1 m radius (rounding up).
So depending on how the area is being rounded, I'd say the reported radius is correct.

Speaking of this, I tried adding concentrated effect to contagion, and noticed it didn’t change the damage values.

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Xemas#0783 wrote:

Speaking of this, I tried adding concentrated effect to contagion, and noticed it didn’t change the damage values.

That may be because even though it is listed as AoE, it doesn't actually do area damage. It only spreads in an area, but in the description it says "afflicts a single enemy..."

I guess it is working as intended.