Is Wave of Light bugged?

[Instant]

Obviously it's our 'big nuke'. It's supposed to hit for 215% initially (with some splash - 45%). With Wall of Light rune it's supposed to do 312%.

Ok, above is what should happen, now let me tell you what im currently seeing on screen.

I have around 1350 damage. With that number my generators hit for ~1100 (on average), and my Wave of Light hits for ~1200 initial and some ~400 with splash. My kick hits for ~1800.

Initially i thought that maybe mobs im hitting have some high holy resistance (since Wave of Light is holy damage) but the numbers are similiar on every goddamn demon i try to kill.

As for now my Wave of light hits for ~140% weapon damage instead of what tooltip says. Whenever i use Wall of light rune it goes up a little, but it's only half of what it should be.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Maybe there is something that i don't understand about this skill (which would be weird, is it's pretty straightforward). I don't know if tooltip is bugged and should display smaller value, or if the spell itself is bugged, or maybe it's working as intended.

Any insight would be appreciated.

[BazzPsychoNut]

I never did the numbers, but it was clearly not a viable skill for a low level (25) character, because it costs too much for the damage it does. So I tried it for about 15 minutes and I'm not going to use it for a long time now.

[Instant]

Yes, i had the same feeling about this skill.

This skill does too little damage for the cost, but what if the reason for that is a bug? 75 spirit is quite a lot for ~150% weapon damage, but it's not that bad for ~310 (with a rune).

Right now this skill sucks big time, and i'd like to understand why is that :(

[bluefly]

I rarely use it also but it's worth mentioning that part of it's usefulness is the knockback.

[redrach]

I believe WoL hits twice, which would explain why the number is so small.
Explosive Light is really good, btw. It's amazing against large groups because of the gigantic AoE.

[cokebabies]

Wave of Light definitely costs too much for the amount of damage it does. It's AoE range seems pretty limited too. I doesn't look kinda cool tho I will admit.

[Threepwood]

I believe WoL hits twice, which would explain why the number is so small.

Yeah, this.

It actually hits three times: Twice for the bell, and one more time for the wave.

Though there was a bug in beta where if you were dual wielding fast weapons one of the two initial hits wouldn't come out. Blizzard commented on it, though, so I assumed it would be fixed in retail.

[Kornkills]

I LOVE wave of light. With the rune that lowers cost to 40 spirit, this skill is great for knocking back mobs, and placeing running mobs in corners/walls. I will admit, the damage does not appear to match the % the skill claims.

[Naibchris]

I have been using it with the aoe rune (Explosive light) for a while now (lvl 40 atm, and I think it is quite satisfactory. I also have the passive for 100 more spirit though.

[Instant]

Yeah, this.

It actually hits three times: Twice for the bell, and one more time for the wave.

Though there was a bug in beta where if you were dual wielding fast weapons one of the two initial hits wouldn't come out. Blizzard commented on it, though, so I assumed it would be fixed in retail.

I forgot about it.

When im back home from work, i'll try it out with some 2 handed weapon and see if there are two hits (i'm always Dual Wielding, cause of superior spirit generation).

Because of a way im playing (kinda 'tankish' with my brother in coop exclusively) i don't like/want knockback at all. In fact I wan't it completly opposite, that's why Cyclone Strike i my main skill

Buf if WoL is indeed hitting twice then the number should be correct. Nevertheless it's still bugged but in a different way...

Thanks for response and a remainder