Bump, this is a pretty big issue for dot classes. Nearly 400 damage is missing off splurt at present.
Here's winged death, listed at 9 ticks. Duration has never changed on lucy since the DB was made public in march 2002.
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spellhist...01&source=Live
Yet every site mentions 10 ticks. There's even the patch notes I mentioned which explicitly mention that they raised dot duration, but no changes were made in the spell files.
http://www.thedruidsgrove.org/archive/eq/t-3883.html
Scirocco
07-03-2001, 06:23 AM
Scirocco's thorough discussion of this topic is right on target, as I tested this about a year ago, around the time of the "kiting nerf".
Against a stationary target, DoTs do MORE damage than the amount listed in EQ Caster. There is a server side bonus of approximately 12% for the high level spells. I first noticed this when I was playing a shaman long ago and saw that two envenomed bolts (listed as 1132 damage per shot, or 2264 together) would always kill a sand giant of any level if rooted, but two ice comets (1120 each, or 2240 total) would not, leaving a visible amount of health (more than the 24 differential). I then saw the ShowEQ data that listed SG hit points as 2472 + 20/level (maximum 2552), and it all made sense - the two envenomed bolts were doing at least 2552 damage, if the ShowEQ data was correct.