Has anyone noticed this? Recently i've started playing my DK again, and I respecced DW Frost to 2h Unholy for a change. I picked up Contagion as a no brainer aoe damage increase, but upon actual testing it has 0 effect.
Tested it for about an hour on training dummies in SW. Frost Fever damage was 1027/1028 on the first target, and Blood Plague was 1048/1049 damage, each individual target receiving the diseases had the exact same damage.
I thought at first it might mean all diseases, even though if that was 100% increase disease damage was alot lower than I remembered. So I respecced, and took the points out of Contagion and tried again. Same disease damage as without on the single target.
I don't see this mentioned at all on the PTR patch notes, though the change to virulence would make this being fixed even more appealing. Two 30% increases, and a 100% increase to adds? Thats alot of damage being bugged away.
---------- Post added 2011-02-01 at 10:11 AM ----------
After a bit of further testing, without contagion the diseases spread via pestilence were doing about 20% less damage around 825 each tick. Upon putting points back into Contagion they were bumped back up to the 1k range.
The tooltip states that diseases spread via pestilence take 100% of the disease damage, but this isn't the case. Either way, a 100% increase doesn't turn 800 damage into 1000 damage.