Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - General Extremely powerful mage combos. (guide, solo mage)

I read somewhere that the damage bonus from magic schools is not additive with int bonus, so investing in poly's impact won't be as big when you have say like 60+ int.

Edit: made up an example.

Poly isn't always straight up better, if the skill system works the way I think it works.

For example, you are a pyro/geo mage that needs damage in these 2 schools, you have 60 int, 6 pyro, and 6 geo, and you have 4 skill points to spend on a lonewolf character.

Spending the points in pyro/geo, will make the damage for each school rise from 130% to 150%, equivalent to 15.38% more damage.

Spending the points in poly, which gives 8 int, will make the total damage go from, 350% to 390%, result in about 11.43% more damage.

In this case, going full poly is not a superior choice.