I've seen/heard multiple assurances that Arcane Augmentation, now listed in the wiki as Spell Augmentation, only works on wizard and sorcerer spells, or on other classes casting spells that are also wizard or sorcerer spells.

These people who are always generous with their opinions, and are never wrong insist that it doesn't work on other spells. 

So, I need to double check that I'm interpreting what I see correctly and ask, if what I think think I'm seeing is what I am actually seeing, if this is WAI. As I already know exactly what kind of response I'll get at the mother boards, I figure I might as well double-check here.


When I cast a spell, any arcane spell, but particularly non-wiz/sorc spells while not wearing a spell augmentation item, the combat log does not tell me at what caster level I am casting a spell.   <--- this is, I assume, WAI. There's nothing special to report, so it reports nothing extra.

When on that same character, who is level 20, I equip an Arcane Augmentation IX item with no other changes and cast an arcane non-wiz/sorc spell, the combat log reports something like "You begin to cast said spell at level 22."

As the only change was equipping the augmentation item, I have to assume that this is the effect of the item.  Right?


So... is this WAI?  Or is this borderline fight club?

Is this only working because my character is technically "arcane"?


That arcane augmentation item is BTC, so I'm thinking of getting a Robe of Duality and testing it out on a druid and a FvS.

Thing is, it might just save me some time if anyone here can just tell me what's going on.

Werebadger wrote on Jan 1^st, 2014 at 12:28am:



rest wrote on Jan 1^st, 2014 at 12:30am:


I know you can't trust that I'm not an idiot or have any clue what I'm talking about, but prismatic strike and tactical detonation are not in the spell books of either sorcerers or wizards. 

rest wrote on Jan 1^st, 2014 at 1:16am:

Yes

I can tell you that my FvS who has a twilight doesn't get extra caster levels to her blade barriers or cometfall.

NOTpopejubal wrote on Jan 1^st, 2014 at 1:26pm:


Simple math gives you that answer.

How many extra (X) dice of damage does a caster level give (assuming you are not at damage cap for the spell):
The total extra damage(Z) is then, for a typical d6 damage spell)

X(d3+3)*(1+Spellpower/100) = average extra damage for the spell in question.

Shadehater wrote on Jan 1^st, 2014 at 1:47pm:


I wasn't so much looking at how to calculate what the spell damage should be as I was trying to figure out what caster level Turbine would actually use for casting spells because there were so many problems with max caster level for so long and because so many spells have their caster level capped.

NOTpopejubal wrote on Jan 1^st, 2014 at 1:26pm:


Because they don't cast at a higher level. My nightshield does.

The way spells are classified in DDO are arbitrarily silly.

Yeah, because its considered a divine spell since it appeared in the divine spell book long before artis were around.