Question about +spell damage gear

Post by Nothgrin

From the tooltips that are given on the items I am lead to believe that +spell damage will not always give that amount of additional damage.

For example:
I have a spell with 1 nature damage. If I have 999 +spell damage, I will not always get 1000 damage per cast. Sometimes I may get +549 or other times +923 but not always +999.

Am I safe to believe that the real additional damage is the +spell damage halved? Or am I totally wrong? I just needed some clarification to make some DPS calculations.

Thanks for your time.

Post by hezec

Spells get different amounts of +dmg based on their cast time (3.5 sec casts gain 100%). HoTs and DoTs obviously complicate it a bit more but each spell does have a set percentage it gains.

Read this article for more precise information.

Question about +spell damage gear

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