When i take 4/4 Careful assault in Shadow Cascade tree, i’m supposed to deal 100% more damage with shadow cascade, if i have exactly 4 number of shadows. Let’s take 2 scenarios:
a) i use synchronised strike twice, with Dark allies and wave of darkness nodes taken. So i create 4 shadows, and on second cast, first 4 shadows proc shadow cascade with 100% more damage dealt.
b) i use synchronised strike with those nodes, then i use shift lasting presence and dancing shadows. At this moment, 5th shadow is created (cause bladedancer gives +1 to maximum shadows, and Shadow Master on passive tree also gives +1 to maximum shadows). And then shift automatically procs Shadow Cascade with 5 shadows, so 100% more damage from Careful Assault shouldn’t work.
I tried to play around that, so i just didn’t take any points into Shadow Master. So my maximum number of shadows is 4, so i basically always deal 100% more damage, and that should work.
But currently, any skill that procs Shadow Cascade, remembers (snapshots) the number of shadows that i had when i DIRECTLY casted Shadow Cascade. So lets say i have 4 shadows, i selfcast shadow cascade. Then i proc shadow cascade from Shift with only 2 shadows active. And Shadow Cascade still deals 100% more damage.
It is like that both in offline and online, and i think it always worked like that and for some reason no one even noticed or cared.
