Was the lightning wyvern breath super-buffed?
I’m in SP, which means I get double the melee per level‑up compared to official. Combine this with my wyvern, who has 39 wild levels in melee, 40 melee mutations (i.e., +80 melee levels), 100% imprint, and 44 melee level‑ups, this brings his melee to 3,125.8%. I also have the max rider‑bonus skill‑tree perk, giving me 1.33× rider‑bonus damage instead of 1.3×.
The Lightning Wyvern has a bite damage of 80, and a lightning‑breath tick damage of 15 (instead of the original 25 per tick in ASE because of the 40% shadow nerf when it was added to ASA). This means it should deal around 3,326 damage per bite to creatures and 624 per lightning tick. It did basically that for the past few months I’ve had this wyvern, up until a few days ago, around when Cerberax and the other creatures were added.
Now, while it still does roughly the same damage per bite, it’s suddenly doing anywhere between 1,120–1,200+ damage per tick to most wild creatures. I checked my buffs on both myself and my tame and don’t see anything new that would specifically boost breath damage, and the breath damage is inconsistent on top of that. Note: I’m not complaining, I always love a buff, especially after a 40% shadow nerf, but anyone know why?
Wyvern Stats. (who I named Alpha Lightning Wyvern after breeding him to have alpha colors)
TLDR: damage from the lightning breath per tick was around 624 for months till recent update, its now 1,120–1,200+ damage per tick. I have no idea why.