Developer Q&A

[ku_mag_99]

Continuing the discussion from Need help. Have few questions to you guys:

hi,

so i had a question which was kindly addressed in the preceding thread linked above. the following quotes are my question and the response respectively:

@ku_mag_99

If I have a rouge and i change its MH special skill, for example to a warrior skill - whirlwind, where will it base its damage? Purely on weapon damages? Just wondering because obviously i don’t have an option to upgrade that warrior skill.

expounding on this question:

indeed, i would like to know an answer to this bit as well. not just for ambering items, but also regarding set affixes that let you play as a different class (namely spellsword and battlemage).

so if say i have a dagger with quick attack and blinkstrike set to max heroics (20) and am using battle mage, would charge and whirlwind then take on the stats of blinkstrike and quick attack?

@Jarz

Answer is no, outside class skill stat doesn’t add. You need to have affix +all stat to increase it.

now my question is, why is this the case? i would really like to know how come skills that are not within a class’s list do not take on the stats of the skills they replace. would it become OP if it were so? how are the skills’ damages then calculated if they do not adopt the stats? also, do the devs have any plans of changing this in upcoming updates (like say, in 2.1)? if the devs are at liberty to answer such a query, it would be much appreciated.