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Newbie here and I can't find this issue reported anywhere else:
I'm trying a Disintegrate (fire) build. DPS reported in the UI as 10K, almost 9 times higher than Fireball. Yet both seem to do the same amount of damage. Fireball has longer range and with some points in it can penetrate as well. Is damage being misrepresented somehow?

Am I doing something wrong?

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9 months ago - /u/ekimarcher - Direct link

DPS tooltips are designed as a tool to help with gear upgrades but not to compare skills to each other.

9 months ago - /u/ekimarcher - Direct link

Originally posted by MattyBass87

Curious on why disintegrate has such a large variance displayed to actually real damage?

Not sure. If I had to guess, some commonly used node is probably being overestimated in power.