So the setup is pretty simple - a lvl 7 mage, no investments in passives, no specialized skills, no items.
Then we equip a silver wand with no affixes and a silver wand with +24% chance to ignite on hit suffix.
Lightning Blast / Fireball / Elemental Nova values in game are (respectively):
- no affixes:
45 / 50 / 36 - with ignite affix:
59 / 63 / 52
More precise DPS values in my calculations are (once again respectively)
- no affixes:
44.85 / 49.59 / 36.23 - with ignite affix:
58.64 / 63.39 / 50.01
This affix basically adds Ignite damage equal to
35 * 1.12 * 0.24 = 9.41 ( 24% chance to apply, 12% increased damage from 3 int)
Multiplied by attack speed of 1.47 (it’s the same for all these skills) we get ignite DPS = 13.8
The question is - what’s up with Elemental nova? Having a wand with % ignite affix equipped increases its DPS by 16. Looks like a bug somewhere, or I’m just missing something.