Penance Brand of Conduction calculates its damage per hit rate, not per duration

[Southpaw17]

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What is the value from the calculation in-game?

The new Penance Brand of Conduction does not do damage each time it activates, only when it detaches from the enemy. PoB appears to be calculating its damage each time the skill activates and not once per duration.

Example:
Penance Brand of Conduction should see a DPS decrease when linked with Increased Duration

What is the value from the calculation in Path of Building?

Example: On a level 1 character with a 20/0 Penance Brand of Conduction, PoB shows a Full DPS of 8725 (Average Hit x Hit Rate for this setup). This value is incorrect, because PBoC only does damage once, when it expires.

Actual DPS for this setup should be: Average Hit / max(Cast Time, Skill Duration) or 1308 / max(0.75, 0.528) = 1744 for this simple setup.

To further show this, Penance Brand of Conduction should see lower DPS when linked with Increased Duration, because it will take longer to expire once attached and therefore longer between damage instances.

When linking PBoC to Increased Duration in PoB 2.39.0, there is no change to Full DPS at all, but the new DPS should be: 1308 / max(0.75, 0.825) = ~1538.

How to reproduce the issue

1. Select Penance Brand of Conduction as the main skill
2. Take note of the Full DPS calculation, and the Skill Duration
3. Make a 2-link with Increased Duration Support
4. Note that DPS does not change, even though in game this setup would do less DPS due more time between damage instances

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[Korrigus]

Bumping this, as I've noticed this calculations bug as well -- PoB is calculating Penance Brand of Conduction as hitting upwards of 20 times per second based on activation time, which is not the case in game as OP has explained.

As far as I can see, the actual hit rate of Penance Brand of Conduction should be:

• For single-target scenarios, it's always the attached duration of the brand
  • Brand Recall could technically be used before the brand expires, but given Brand Recall has a cooldown it should have little effect on DPS
• For multi-target scenarios, it's the lower of:
  • The attached duration of the brand
  • The at least 0.3 second cooldown of the Brand Mastery that reads "Brands Attach to a new Enemy each time they Activate, no more than once every 0.3 seconds", rounded up to the next activation tick for the brand

[DanielLambert]

This still appears to be an issue with the most recent version.

[Ganark]

Bump, PBoC got buffed and may be a viable skill, please look into it