harshmellow wrote:255 energy
49% lightning damage
Level 60 Mind Flay
69 Energy Factor
Plus 42% elemental damage from acid fiends
Plus 10% elemental from mark of the wild
Mind flay tooltip: 1246-1553
Based on someone else's tip I won't bother with STR factor for now, if at all. So 0 STR factor.
I know these stats are bush league, I just want to know if this can be viable.
Mind Flay tooltip is per projectile IIRC. I might be wrong about that though. Regardless...
You dmg as an oskill is scaling in line with the native skill roughly speaking if my eyes are not all fucked after all the testing that I´ve done. The thing you need to keep in mind is that in order to scale spells you need to do what mortimer suggested, skill levels, spell dmg, energy and EF. At your stage, % spell dmg is the go to method as you still don´t have what it takes to make EF work.
at 49% spell dmg, you will barely see any dmg output. Generally you want to be in the 3-400 ballpark. Heck, various variations of casters can reach 5-600+. The issue you are going to run into is that the skill level matters very little as the scaling per level is rather low in itself. The lvl 60 skill damage is going to be used as base for the % spell dmg to be applied to. That is the reason it feels like low dmg --> because as a native skill, paladin can inflate its damage using things like superbeast, stormlord, etc. So as a skill it has to be balanced in a way that makes sense for the paly to use. Putting it in a druid´s hands can only work if you run it with high level symbiosis + mythal + fiends + energy + lots of crafted % spell dmg gear. And even then it probably won´t work.
In addition, you are using a bow, which means that you are by default handicapped because you can´t use a 13sk 80%+ spell dmg 2h druid staff. The bow also lacks % spell dmg and there is no good quiver to compliment it. What all of this tells me is that this bow oskill, like almost all other oskills, is shaped in a way to be more of a meme than viable. You´ll find the same memeing mentality with StormFront druid which has btw been buffed by ~100% since last patch and still is garbage. If you want to use that bow with Mind Flay do so late game when you have lots of charms, ornate shrines and some crafted gears. Trying to level up and scale with it is an uphill battle against the "balancing mechanics" (which sadly is not a fight you can win easily).
Conclusion: I´ve been flailing about the oskill list for a reason. Most of it is there as end-game meme content and does not make for viable builds. If you want to do some useful caster light druid build, try StormFront, Other than that... yea! good luck :/