I Lost 2 MILLION Damage Because of a Single Tooltip | Serration Aspect is Busted Strong! Diablo 4

While min-maxing my Bone Spirit Necromancer we decided to remove an Additive Critical Strike damage aspect, because we already had 530+ Critical Strike Damage. But it turns out Serration Aspect is a Multiplier instead of an Additive bonus. This caused us to lose over 2 Million Damage on our Crits because we trusted a Tooltip at face value. This might be the reason your build stopped working, you lost damage or survivability when you didn't expect to. I was lucky enough to find a near-perfect replacement aspect, but I lost my perfect Aspect and without it the next best option was only half of strong. I hope this helps you to avoid similar issues in the future ESPECIALLY when you're replacing perfect version of aspects on your gear.

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00:00 Introduction
00:23 How Did this Happen?
01:27 Serration Aspect
02:18 It SHOULDNT Add a Lot
03:34 The Testing
05:01 The Results
06:54 Why is this Imporant?

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[kich]

I think this is confusing because under the covers, this isn't actually a multiplier, it's an addition to a NEW bucket that you had none of previously. The bucket is a multiplier to your damage, but this mod says + because it's adding to it, if it said "x" it wouldn't make any sense because you're multiplying 0 by that number. So this means that there are likely many Legendary Aspects that create _new buckets_ that only that aspect fills, which serves as a new multiplier only achievable by that mod.

[matejbosela]

Rather than the bucket, it adds to the base value of the passive. Thus, assuming you have 100 essence, we are looking at the 1.5x multiplier without the aspect, and about 2x multiplier with the aspect on, resulting in exactly the 30% more damage dealt. It basically doubles the multiplier you already have up until 110 essence.

[brizjk]

In the tooltip of the Ossified Essence, there is a [x] signifying the passive is multiplicative, so the aspect is additive not to "normal" stats but to a hidden Ossified Essence passve critical damage on bone skill bonus which is then multiplicative to "normal" stats, pretty interesting but definitely not intuitive.

[Riki_Bear]

I had a couple serrations saved in stash but wasn't certain if they were add or multiply, always get what i need from your content bro, thanks.

[GameMnke]

I made a comment, but I wanted to clear it up a bit. My initial impression is that the "+" for CSD is like the "more" from D3 (ie applied "on top" after everything). According to an interpretation I read when looking it up the "+" acts on the base damage before the "x"s are applied. Technically it works out to be the same either way. 1.6*5=(1*5)+(5*.6)

Maybe the confusion is that with most mods there's only + or x. Attack speed and CSC only had + so far as I could find in rogue.

[Riptide]

I believe it follows the rules of Add to the base that gets Multiplied by. Meaning instead of adding 60% to an already 350 percent muiltplier you get that percent multiplied by 60 instead.

[gringoboy]

What i love about WoW is how easy it is to do your own quality control on items and talents due to target dummies and damage meters. I wouldn't be surprised it 20% of the items/talents in D4 don't actually do what they say they do, but it is obnoxious trying to test each thing individually.

[jordanday]

What an interesting discovery. What aspect’s would you recommend swapping out for this one?

[Guanjyn]

I levelled as summon and after a few tier 3 dungeons respecced to your spec and it's ridiculously fun. Even if they buff minions I don't think I could go back. I refer to bone spirit as "the moab" when I'm playing with friends.

[shwaazi]

So glad I saw this. I was just considering replacing this aspect because it didn't seem like that much increase since it said additive. Great deep dive 🙌🏻

[SljmD]

I don't think the tooltip is wrong per se, it's just not clear what it is additive to. You assumed it's adding to your other Critical Strike Damage, when it's "adding" to Ossified Essence's Critical Strike Damage, which was previously 1.0x and is multiplicative.

Just goes to show that testing is better than reading.

[mr.mardoc]

Super find i wonder what else it will apply to in other classes gear

[Celeborn]

I discovered this on my level 50 necro two weeks ago. I just went with Shadowblight because i felt it was more stable dmg output. Then i found a perfect rolled Serration aspect and wanted to try it out for fun, and my first bonespirit went from 300k to 3mil and i just blurted out "WTF" and scared the shit out of my sister.

[WalshieEU]

Hey. Will you be releasing a video with your updated necro build? I noticed you’ve dropped corpse explosion and picked up blood mist now, so wanted to know what you changed with the rest of the build.

[AlexVardr]

I read this as increasing the existing total critical dmg of only your bone skills by 59%, which is what you are seeing here. This literally adds 59% damage after calculating the crit dmg.

[Vicious]

Hi, sorry for the question, on the testing part of the video, when you start your combo I can see that you also build up fortify....how is it possible without casting bone prision? because you didn't cast it there.
Thanks for the help!

[endikacampoacha]

Hey @MacroBioBoi, you that have been playing with the necro for so much time, do you consider as most say out there the worst class right now for solo endgame??

[MrGAMERSVID]

Do you think Bone Prison is a much better source of essence compared to eating corpses?

[godofmtal]

All damage aside, which by nature is just common sense that bone spirit is going to do the highest single hit damage in the game, that playstyle looks horrible. Like I don't see how/why anyone would actually run a build like that.

[ezmkmone]

Man youre my go to resource for my necro. Needed this vid👌🏾