# Crescendo not working?

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/crescendo-not-working/3393>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 2, 2016, 10:14am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/crescendo-not-working/3393 "2016-02-02T10:14:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crodley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5a626/32.png) [@Crodley](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Crodley)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 10:14am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/crescendo-not-working/3393/1 "2016-02-02T10:14:22Z")

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**What you were expecting to happen, and what actually happened?**

Hero equiped with new weapon crescendo which does 5 true damage to all. Brian the lucky is supposed to boost the true damage by 7 which should make him do 12 true damage to all. But instead only boosts him to 9 true damage total.

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**Author:** ![yonizaf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/yonizaf/32/1435_2.png) [@yonizaf](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/yonizaf)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 10:19am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/crescendo-not-working/3393/2 "2016-02-02T10:19:24Z")

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As I recall seeing in the announcement thread that Crescendo gets one damage added for every **two** magic points, so what you describe seem to be correct behavior:

> [@Weekly Event: Fortissmo](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/weekly-event-fortissmo/3352/27):
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> The formula for Crescendo is DAMAGE = 2 + MAGIC/2 (rounded down)

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**Author:** ![MarvelKit](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/marvelkit/32/7072_2.png) [@MarvelKit](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/MarvelKit)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 10:21am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/crescendo-not-working/3393/3 "2016-02-02T10:21:12Z")

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The formula for Crescendo is DAMAGE = 2 + MAGIC/2 (rounded down).

So in your case: originally it was 5 true damage, meaning magic was 6 (2+6/2=5)  
Buffed by Brian this makes 2+(6+7)/2=8 (rounded down). So there is something wrong, but in your favour I think. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Crodley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5a626/32.png) [@Crodley](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Crodley)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 10:26am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/crescendo-not-working/3393/4 "2016-02-02T10:26:52Z")

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I keep forgetting to read the “fine print” on these events, lol. Thanks for the info

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**Author:** ![yonizaf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/yonizaf/32/1435_2.png) [@yonizaf](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/yonizaf)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 10:27am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/crescendo-not-working/3393/5 "2016-02-02T10:27:43Z")

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> [@MarvelKit](#):
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> So there is something wrong, but in your favour I think.

There was nothing wrong. I assume magic was 7 (which rounds down to 5 damage based on said formula), after adding 7 magic totals 14, which leads to exactly 9 damage.

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**Author:** ![MarvelKit](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/marvelkit/32/7072_2.png) [@MarvelKit](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/MarvelKit)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 10:39am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/crescendo-not-working/3393/6 "2016-02-02T10:39:16Z")

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yep, you’re right of course. 🙂