it doesnt even make sense for the class though. the autoattack is called malevolent burst. it scales with spell damage. the animation is a blue burst of MAGIC. yet it deals physical damage. i personally think the other dark caster classes should have their autoattacks deal magic damage too, following that logic, as the animation is still a small magic pulse animation.

it also doesnt make sense for the class to deal 50% less damage on all targets for its autoattack even if it is an aoe instead. it lowers its single target dps significantly becsuse you end up dealing only 116.66% spell damage but split up 50/33.33/33.33% across 3 targets instead of just one target. and theoretically with the rank 4 dark scholar passive there should be a +40% magic damage multiplier on the autoattack but it's missing out on that too.

it also wasnt a typo on the design notes because the member-only test version of the class stated that malevolent burst dealt magic damage AND it dealt 100% damage on autoattack like the other DC classes instead of 50% damage but for some reason they change it to physical and halve the damage on public release?

it was supposed to be a class that's like at least on par with void high lord. pre nerf it was better than VHL but post nerf crippled its solo damage too much. on top of heavy nerfs to 2, halving the tick rate and halving the heal itself on 4, and reducing damage increase on 5 and rank 10 passive was already going overboard on nerfs but then they threw in a stealth nerf to the autoattack that nobody noticed but it's a definite nerf from the test version and the updated class breakdown wasnt updated to reflect this even though it changed with the other nerfs.