Game Mechanics: Q: How do DoTs Work Here?

[Dabamf]

DOTs not stacking are the reason no one played a necro end game. Yea, it was classic, but it also ruined any and all fun of playing a necro in a raid. So in the interest of keeping it classic, if you wanna change that, I can't really argue, but you are going to all but ruin the class doing so. Just something to keep in mind.

And if you change DOT stacking without giving us our fine steel dagger rapetrain pet, you are completely ruining the class. Sorta like...bond of death being shit was made up for the fact that asystole was OP. DOT stacking sorta makes up for our pet being no where NEAR as good as it was in classic. You can't take away one and not return the other. And the FS dagger delay is something necros have been pretty quiet about, accepting that some things are just different, and that has been compensated by unclassic aspects that benefit us as well. It would be completely ridiculous to remove dot stacking without also implementing weapon delay changing pet delay.

[doacleric]

Dots of the same spell from the same class certainly did not stack in classic. I remember going on a PoH raid with my necro back in 1999. I couldn't cast any of my dots because they wouldn't stick with all the other necro's there. The only effective DD spell I had was ignite bones, and most people didn't like us casting that due to the mob changing size. Thus, I was forced to lifetap the entire night.

[Segoris]

Loretta, doombringer to dot classes everywhere!

[LazyFuj]

time to reroll, dot classes will be useless for raid content ! :/

[ENUS]

Ok first off if your rerolling due to dots not stacking thats dumb. There are only so many slots for a debuff anyway so with all the other debuffs and classes each putting a dot on seems dumb to think that a 2nd necro putting on the same dot is going to make a difference. Likely it there wouldnt even be enough debuff slots anyways.

[Rourk]

The only real 'dot class' on raids is necros. Shamans and druids have more important uses for their mana. It hinders necros, but like enus said there are only limited debuff slots and dots aren't a priority.

[Loretta]

I like the playstyle of Necros in the leveling game but if its going to completely shift towards a non-DPS class in a large group environment I may just be best to delete Loretta and create a Wizard in her stead [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

I was surprised this discussion turned into such a hot debate, I rarely post and seldom play these days and it just popped into my head as one of those things.

[Aaron]

If you're just looking at the raid picture, then yeah, wizard is a better choice.

If you enjoy playing a necro though, then play the necro. Mages get unnecessary in high-end raids too, but I won't be quitting my mage.