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Penance Brand of Dissipation calculation varitation

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What platform are you running Path of Building on?

Windows

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Penance brand of dissipation currently has two calculation modes neither of which accurately convey its real damage very well (further explanation below).

Describe the solution you'd like

There should be another (?) mode called something like "average damage per cast" that averages the damage ticks the brand does over the full duration

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

Energy pulse where you can manually input the amount of stacks it is on
Max pulse per brand where it calculates the maximum stacks the brand can acquire given the tick rate and the duration and displays the damage that maximum pulse does; this mode doesn't consider the ramp it takes and thus heavily distorts the value cast speed and duration have: duration is considered very good until 20 activations per brand and useless thereafter for example.

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Research direction

Start by locating the existing Penance Brand of Dissipation calculation modes and reviewing how their damage ticks, stack counts, cast rate, and duration are modeled. Done should include a clearly defined additional calculation mode that averages damage over the full duration, while addressing the requested manual-stack and maximum-pulse behavior.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
lua
Domain
game-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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