Dark Blast/Plant Blaster and Moonbeam?

[Daihok]

Ok so i made a dark blast/plant blaster. For some reason pines in pvp mode haveing toxins and aim both toggles on makes Moonbeam do less dmg? Is this an error on pines or what is the purpose of this? It has me all confused when trying to make a build.

[MJB]

2 possible reasons:

 

1) pines is bugged

2) pines is being clever and seeing that you have over 97% tohit, which makes the snipe instant cast. in pvp ability damage is based largely on its activation time (and a few other factors), so when the snipe becomes instant, its activation time reduces (notably, 0 interrupt time instead of 3 or whatever the default is) and so its damage does too

 

I see both of these options as being about equally likely