MCH Turret Not As Strong As Advertised?

[giantslayer]

I just got to level 40 and got my turret last night. I decided to try it out on a random Ice Sprite that was nearby. The damage was a bit lower than I was expecting, so decided to test it out a bit by comparing its damage to Split Shot.

My turret did about 50 damage on average.
My auto attacks also did around 50 on average.
Split Shot was doing somewhere between 100-110 on average.

Split Shot has 140 potency. Turret is supposed to have 80. That means the turret should be hitting for 57% of the damage that Split Shot is doing. It was hitting for closer to 45-50%. By those calculations, true turret potency is closer to 65 or 70.

I also tried popping Hawk's Eye to see what that would do to the turret damage. It did nothing to it. I even tried re-summoning the turret while the buff was active and it still did the same damage. I didn't test it with other buffs.

I'm a little disappointed. Only explanation I can think of is that my 20% Trait damage buff isn't applied to the turret. That gets the numbers pretty close.

[Ephier]

You have a trait called increase action damage, which increased skill damage by 20%. But to my understanding it does not affect turret damage even though it says it does.