Roshidon

Hi all - Zyler here. I was just wondering if the Cone of Cold damage was correct. For some reason it is doing less than my Frostbolt although the tooltip says 286 to 315 damage on Cone of Cold (rank 3) and 240 to 262 damage on Frostbolt (rank 7). I also have the 3/3 talent Improved Cone of Cold which increases its damage by 35% and I have a decent amount of + frost damage on my gear. My Frostbolts are hitting for around 390 with my + spell damage and Cone of Cold is hitting for around 320. Am I missing something here?

Thx for the explanation Thefapmonsoon, although I deleted my WDB folder and my items are still showing the same tooltips.

No ty. Other posters and I have already answer my own question.

What's the WDB folder?

Thanks for the replies guys!

Not sure what you're getting at. I just checked a few different ranks and it does seem to be cast time based. Rank 1 Frostbolt is only doing about 50 more damage than the tooltip whereas Rank 3 is doing about 100 more and Rank 7 is doing about 150 more damage based on my spell power.

Yea I just checked and I have around +160 spell damage (mixture of + frost and + magical damage and healing). I guess this seems to add up for Frostbolt but not nearly as much when we look at Cone of Cold. I do faintly remember spell power benefitting cast time spells better but it's been so long since I played original vanilla I'm not sure. p.s. I just did a quick test - I tried a few fireblasts with -55 spell power averaging out at about 280 damage. Slapped the spell power back on and they went up to around 300. I tried the same thing with Frostbolt with the first casts averaging out at around 330 and after slapping the spell power back on they went up to around 400. So I'm not sure if the spells Cone of Cold and Fireblast are not as strong because they are instants or if there is another reason behind it.