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    Artificer Hive question...

    My turret hits for 68,349 (not the best I know but that’s besides the point). My Artificer is skill tier 6 and has a buff amount of 70%. Technically if it’s buffing for 70% then the dmg amount should be 116,193. But when my Artificer buffs it only causes the turret to hit for 89,717. Is this a bug? Am I just not understanding that math? Need help.
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    CategoryTheory's Avatar Senior Member
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    My first guess would be that the Artificier hive buff is additive with either skill damage or skill tier (or both) rather than a separate multiplier.

    In this game, figuring out which buffs are additive with each other and which are separate multipliers is tricky.
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    Noxious81's Avatar Senior Member
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    This buff is being applied to the base damage of your turret (base damage = the damage the turret does with Skill Tier 0). As your Artificier Hive has Skill Tier 6, your turret will have the same Skill Tier and thus already a 120% buff added to its base damage.

    In other words:
    If your turret hits for 68,349 with Skill Tier 6 and its already included 120% damage bonus, the base damage of your turret is around 31,067. 70% of that base damage now are approx. 21,747. And if you add your current damage 68,349 to this bonus of 21,747 you will end at approx. 90,000.

    Btw:
    The same is true for bonuses like Shield Health. They always refer to the base values.
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