SE: if it aint broke, dont fix it (War)

[Chrono_Rising]

It is not ignoring the stance penalty. You have more HP in Defiance, and Upheaval scales off of HP.

Unchained simply removes the reduction from the stance. If you use Thrill of Battle before you pop Upheaval, you do more damage that way too.

You are totally ignoring how Upheaval works. Defiance is more HP, more HP equals more damage. So, of course, you do less damage in Deliverance, you've lost 25% of your HP.

Ok perhaps I'm reading the wrong tool tip. I am under the impression that it ignores the stance penalty, perhaps I should try to justify that instead.

I would think that used with the tank stance you would do 1.25 times its damage for the HP scaling. Without the ignoring the damage penalty I would think it would do .8 of that value which would be nearly the same in both stances. However, that clearly isn't the case so one of my assumptions is wrong.

I'm guessing it doesn't scale linearly with your maximum HP then?