Devastating News

One of the new changes in the expansion, thus far, involve changing how Devastate works. Currently, Devastate provides damage & Sunder Armor (including the threat from both abilities). However, in the expansion Devastate will deal damage plus threat equal to 5% of attack power while placing Sunder Armor on the target. It will gain no additional threat via Sunder Armor.

Thanks to Satrina for testing these abilities & deriving some tangible values for the community. This may change between now & release, but so far this is how things look to be going.

So Devastate got nerfed?

Not exactly. All threat is being redone, so to speak. Instead of one point of damage being equal to one point of threat, all damage is to be multiplied by 2.0735 to achieve a numerical value for threat. So, for example if one does 100 damage, it is equal to roughly 207.35 threat. It is believed this is done at the server, but then rounded to an integer.