Leer Cast + Watch How I Do It

Okay, so bear with me here. It's late league and I'm doing weird alt shit.

So the thing I wanted to do is make a Bloodthief Queen tactician, but apparently you *still* can't make BQ a spectre or a companion, so I'm going to try ancestral channeler instead, hoping all those little skulls count as "allies."

Obviously this isn't quite ideal, because the build is going to end up relying very heavily on moving those slow casters around, and the skulls don't follow, which is a shame. If anyone has alternative suggestions for minions that summon minions (gilded scarab suffers from the same slowness issues so unfortunately it won't suffice), I'll take 'em.

If the channelers don't work out I'm going to try summoning the actual bloodthief wasps themselves, but that'll basically lock the character to one queen's worth of wasps, which is a bit unfun.

Another thing I considered is wolves, but it feels like I'd probably just end up with a lackluster version of a hybrid wolf oracle, one that needs to waste a lot of points traveling across the tree.

Anyway, I'm kinda leaving that problem for later.

But one of the questions I have that I can't really test until the character has at least four ascendancy points is:

Does leer cast reduce my damage before or after "Watch How I Do It" gives 25% of my main hand weapon's damage to allies in my presence?

Because if it's after, that's a pretty nice free 50% increased damage node, but if it's before I'll just lose the damage I gain by reducing the value of WHIDI.