Draconic Sorcerer lvl 6 bonus

[daemon]

Elemental Affinity: Damage says when you cast a spell that deals damage of the type associated with your draconic ancestry, you add your Charisma Modifier to the damage, but i don't see that bonus on my spells, so it's really confuses me, because how i can understand how much it's boosts my damage? If i have +3 char bonus, that means i'll deal 2d8+3 or 2d8+6 (1d8+3)+(1d8+3) damage? And if my ancestor is cold dragon, but spell deals not only cold damage, but piercing too, does it work at all? PLEASE HELP i really don't see any difference after getting 6 lvl...

[[AC] Seraface]

I was typing up the same question. My understanding from D&D is it should be 1 addition of your charisma (so your example would be 2d8+3). The problem is the tooltips for the damage, and the actual roll in the combat log don't show the addition. I've tested with Ice Knife, Chromatic Orb (Cold), and Ray of Frost and yet none of them are showing the bonus.

Every other bonus in this game is pretty explicit, even your weapon damage is auto-updated to include buffs on the hotbar, so it's weird this doesn't. Especially since you can see the update for "(Ignores Resistance)" show up.

Can anyone confirm their buff is working? Is this just bugged?

[SpockEndil]

The buff definitely works for me. But as pointed out, it doesn't show up in the tooltip when you hover over the expected damage. It really needs to show up there.

For things that do multiple types of damage, as far as I can tell the only damage that increases is the elemental damage. Mostly I've played with a fire dragon sorcerer, and fire damage spells don't have a lot of additional damage types. But the little I played with cold damage, it didn't look like anything was increasing but the elemental damage. Not 100% sure though.

Oh, and in case anyone is curious, the dragon sorcerer elemental damage increase stacks with the evocation wizard damage increase. No way to get both unless you mod the character class (in other words, "cheat"), but it does stack.

[Khryst]

works for me with Lightning Bolt, and Witch Bolt with Blue Dragon origin.

doesn't show on the tooltip but does in the combat log when you hover over the damage.

Maybe people aren't understanding how it works?

the "affinity" of your origin is purely a type of "elemental" damage, and will only add to that type of damage.

so if you chose
Red/Gold/Brass - Fire spell dmg (fireball, Wall of fire Etc.)
Black/Copper - Acid Spell dmg (Acid Splash)
Blue/Bronze - Lightning dmg (Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning)
White/Silver - Cold dmg (Ray of Frost, Ice Knife)
Green - Poison (Poison Spray, Ray of Sickness)

[Arcane]

I do see the bonus on the combat log. It says 8d6 + 4 damage on my Lightning Bolt.