Raglu wrote:
I looked at that, and made me wonder, "Maybe it's critting?"
But then with the Elemental tree talent that makes spell damage do 200% crits instead of 150%, that wasn't it. So I went into enhancement gear with almost no spell damage (I was partied with a mage and had Wrath of Air down), and the numbers were very very very similar, not even 70 damage apart generally.
You're 70, are you not? It sounds like what is happening is that the -spell damage penalty is being correctly applied to LB but not the corresponding LO when you downrank it. (We're all aware of the downrank -spell damage effect, right?) I will test this out later myself.
However, I highly doubt most, if any of the previous reporters of this bug, were downranking. Feel free to correct me on that if I'm wrong. I know some weren't even 70.
It's possible that this is a bug that applies exclusively to Rank 10 LB outside of the downranking issue, but I still think the majority of what is happening here is that people are losing track of which cast is the LB and which is the LO since they are both recorded on your combat log as LB's.
I'm going to run some tests with my LB downranked later to see if I can replicate this effect. Further posts pending until then.