I'm confused about what Haunting Guise's new passive does

Juggernaut628·2/7/2018, 4:19:24 AM·1 votes·1,059 views

So, quoting what the passive is on PBE:

"Unique Passive - Essence Drain: While damaging champions, increase the damage you deal by 10% (max 2% per second)."

To me, the wording on this is confusing as hell. How can you be increasing your damage dealt by 10%, but maxing at 2% per second? It's like saying distance and velocity as the same units. Could someone explain how exactly this passive works, and even better, can someone figure out a less confusing way of stating it, pending that I'm not the only one confused by this.

Edit : I know what the item is designed for. My confusion is in how it works.

8 Comments

Kai Guy2/7/2018, 4:20:22 AM1 votes

Its for Dots.

Kinkou Order2/7/2018, 4:24:52 AM1 votes

Basically your damage will increase by 2% each second up to 10% after 5 seconds but that is just my guess as to what it is saying.

MagicFlyingLlama2/7/2018, 4:28:24 AM1 votes

It is meant as a damage-dealing item for AP tank/bruisers like Sejuani Vladimir Amumu Chogath Maokai Rumble Singed Swain Teemo as an item that gives them increased damage for staying in extended combat, nothing more complex.

It was always meant for sustained-damage AP champs, but the mpen meant it was good against everything.

Dark Nephthys2/7/2018, 5:18:58 AM1 votes

My guess is that abilities will basically deal 10% more damage to the target (However, if its a DoT then it's only 2% per second) so if you are just a burst mage, maybe your spells just deal 10% more damage but if you're Brand, then his passive will just deal 2% more damage/second. Though the wording is a bit off and I could be wrong as the way I said it kind of feels like item 3001 in a way so I could be wrong. They do need to work on the wording of it a bit, luckily there should be enough time for people to test it out on the pbe to give us more information on it before it reaches live servers.