Do identical DoTs stack on npcs on p99?

solutionx · #1 03-03-2016, 05:31 AM

Just a question out of curiosity. Because it took SoE a patch long after Velious launch to allow necromancer dots to have multiple versions stack on npcs. This was massively detrimental to any DPS we might have been able to provide during long-term raid bosses if several necros were present (as was usually the case).

Basically, for the longest time - and without most of us knowing - we were getting kicked in the nuts.

NarcolepticLTD · #2 03-03-2016, 06:03 AM

DoT's not stacking is classic as fuck.

Nuffwin · #3 03-03-2016, 06:16 AM

I believe two identical dots from 2 players do stack.

Them not stacking was classical classic.

Xaanka · #4 03-03-2016, 06:17 AM

Daldaen · #5 03-03-2016, 08:27 AM

On P99 they don't stack, which is correct.

Ask any epic Druid, shaman, or Vexing using Necro. They'll all tell you that they've had their DoTs worn off after 2 ticks because another player cast theirs.

elwing · #6 03-03-2016, 08:33 AM

Also, for SK, get used to get your darkness overwritten by most forms of snare, and all your dot overwritten if you have a necro in your group...

solutionx · #7 03-03-2016, 08:56 AM

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Also, for SK, get used to get your darkness overwritten by most forms of snare, and all your dot overwritten if you have a necro in your group...

Yeah but in their case (SK) its about accumulating aggro. For us, specially necromancers, it's about outputting damage on hundreds of thousands HP mobs. It was always a terrible sense of being nerfed in the DPS department, and truly sets us down to pet DPS + mana twitching, unfortunately.

DoucLangur · #8 03-03-2016, 11:43 AM

As a longterm necro main on live (April 2001, my first toon) I can confirm necros were basically useless as raid dps until this was patched way after Velious. Sad but true

eqravenprince · #9 03-03-2016, 11:50 AM

Is there a way to determine what stacks? Like take shaman and necro, what of their dot lines can stack

Pep · #10 03-03-2016, 12:15 PM

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Is there a way to determine what stacks?

Get a necro and a shaman of the same level to /duel each other, Then it's just a matter of casting dots on themselves and the opponent to see what lands, what doesn't, and what overwrites what.