Dark Quiver doesn't work

[Max Shadow]

The Dark Quiver skill (Rogue - Marksman) doesn't seem to be working for me. It should give me double damage with bow attacks and skills, but I don't see the damage numbers going higher. The numbers vary in each attack so it's hard to make a precise comparison, but 100% damage increase should be very noticeable.

[GOD OF WAR SANCHEZ]

it is increased damage, not more damage, additive damage scaling if you already have 1000% additive damage would only give you about 10 perc extra dps

[Max Shadow]

But I don't see any damage increase. I'm testing it with Puncture, which is not even specialized. My character increased bow damage is 74%, and the stat doesn't seem to increase for the duration of the buff, and the damage numbers don't go higher either...

[Clawyer]

Did you collect the black arrows? The skill only makes it so black arrows start falling in the area, you have to collect them in order to get bonus damage.

[Ravenkid9266]

Putting both the points from above together.

Increased damage is not the same as more damage.
https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/resources/damage-explained

You also do have to collect the arrows to get the bonus.

A bit of an aside, but each skill also handles damage increases differently. For example as you pointed out Puncture, has added damage effectiveness of 100%. Where as a skill such as Flurry only has an added damage effectiveness of 60%.

[Max Shadow]

Of course I'm collecting the arrows. I still don't see any noticeable damage difference. I'll test this again when I reach the place with the training dummies. For now I'll just use another skill, as Dark Quiver doesn't seem to be helping me kill any faster.

[Astasia]

My assumption is it "works" but is just really bad. I tried using it in one build this cycle and ya it just wasn't at all noticeable. It wouldn't surprise me if it was broken and doing literally nothing, that wouldn't be a first for this game, but I didn't do any real testing, it just "felt" useless. I was doing a detonating arrow build and also had the +90% increased elemental damage node, so it should have been doing 190% increased damage, and it still didn't feel like it was doing anything, but I think I had like +500% increased damage from other sources at the time, and that's just the nature of increased damage. Keep in mind there's more than just increased bow damage, you also have increased elemental/type damage, and increased damage from your main stat, dex for rogue, these are all listed in different places on your stat sheet.