Hi Alovar,

Thank you for the report.

DPS and Base DPS are the same thing. Shadow Queen's Shadow Cowl ability is working properly when updating the DPS.

Do have any links to screenshots of what you think is the bug?

Erika

Now, I'm very interested in the reason why you think Base DPS and DPS is different. Especially since I'ld be unsure I could name more than two people knowing the game better than Erika. Would you mind to elaborate on your claim?

I am very interested in this because I Think there IS a distinction...
My thought doesnt origin from the shadow cowl but from the buff by the storm rider ability.
While this should effectively double (or in case of some legendaries in play triple quadruple,...) the DPS, it only marginly improves the overall damage output.

Vingummi, one correction:

Assuming that SR increases DPS by 100%, the first use doubles the DPS, the second does not: +200% means tripling the base DPS, which is a 50% increase over the previous value. The third use quadruples the base DPS, which is a 33% increase over the previous value, and so on. You shouldn't compare the percentages, but (1+ xxx%), since that is the value that the base DPS gets multiplied by.

But yeah, there's absolutely no distinction between DPS and base DPS...

I think the confusion comes from the topic itself, not necessarily the difference between DPS and base DPS. Since the topic was about Shadow Cowl, there is no "difference" between DPS and base DPs in the realm of this topic since the effect is multiplicative and is it's own effect. Something like Storm Rider is it's own multiplicative effect, but the value it multiplies by is additive. Using multiple SRs increase a value, and THEN that value is applied to DPS as a multiplicative buff.

SR: Using it for 50% buff, then again for another 50% leads to a 100% buff of base DPS, as opposed to two separate 50% buffs stacking multiplicatively. If you start at 100 base DPS and use it once, you go up to 150 DPS, but your BASE DPS is still 100. Using it again brings your DPS to 200, but your *BASE* DPS is still 100.

Shadow Cowl: Gives one single, solid, multiplicative buff. It does not grow over time.

If your base DPS is 100 and you have used SR once, then your resulting DPS would be (base DPS) x (1.5) x (Shadow Cowl) = DPS, and if you use SR again, it becomes (base DPS) x (2.0) x (Shadow Cowl) = DPS. Since Shadow Cowl's effect doesn't change (aside from legendary levels), because of the mathematical Commutative Property of Equality, when dealing with addition or multiplication exclusively within an equation, the order of the integers does not matter. A x B x C = C x B x A.

Basically, the answer "Base DPS is the same as DPS" is only true in the context of applying an effect that does not regularly change it's own value. Because Shadow Cowl's effect can be placed anywhere in the equation for damage calculation without affecting the result, it can be seen as a "technically correct" answer for the sake of simplicity. However, in a general sense, there is definitely a difference between "base DPS" and "DPS" as the terms are used in conversation. IN THE GAME, though, things like Storm Rider do show "increase by 50%" going up to "increase by 100%" when used multiple times, so the game does explicitly state "Your current buff is ___%" in no uncertain terms. It does not say "You have 8 separate stacks of 50% buffs", it says "You have a 400% buff", so it does state the effect clearly. This applies to all buffs in the game.

ok. A new 40% value + 50% value is 1.4*1.5-1=110% more dps, going from 600%->1200% is 50% more dps. The frosty upgrade is additive.

I understood. Thank you very much for your attention and detailed answers.