Spells: Most/All DoTs are 1 tick short

[koros]

Yet more proof that every single dot does 1 more tick than is listed.

http://www.goberserker.com/forums/sh...?t=3106&page=3

"Curse of spirits (epic dot) - 1413 total damage, ~1128 aggro generated, ~.798 aggro to damage ratio.

Plague 60 + (22 X 55) - 1270 total damage, ~1044 aggro generated, ~.82 aggro to damage ratio.

Ice Strike (675 cold nuke) - 675 base damage, ~534 aggro generated, ~.79 aggro to damage ratio.

Blast of Poison (400 poison nuke) - 400 base damage, ~312 aggro generated, ~.78 aggro to damage ratio.

Venom of the snake 40 + (8 X 59) - 512 total damage, ~900 aggro, ~1.75 aggro to damage ratio.

Ebolt 110 + (8 X 146) - 1278 total damage, ~1596 aggro generated, ~1.25 aggro to damage ratio."

Plague is 21 ticks listed but does 22, VoS 7 listed but does 8, Ebolt 7 listed but does 8.

[derpcake]

Originally Posted by koros [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yet more proof that every single dot does 1 more tick than is listed.

http://www.goberserker.com/forums/sh...?t=3106&page=3

I stopped reading when you quoted a site that was made years after classic.

Info by Brael was great back then, but its 2006 info man.

[koros]

Info from after the fact isn't important by itself, but when it confirms the narrative it's valuable. You can see on http://lucy.allakhazam.com/ that the duration for those spells was 1 tick less than they reported.

[Treats]

It may just depend on when the DoT lands and when the first tic occurs.

You can see this with Topor and Celestial Elixir, sometimes the heal results in 5 tics.

I imagine it would work the same for DoT damage.

[koros]

Would be easy to notice if splurt was doing different damage on the last tick if that was the case. Reports are consistent on 203 last tick damage.

[koros]

Post is era appropriate, shows how all druid dots are one tick longer than they are in the spell file. Please fix this.

http://www.thedruidsgrove.org/archive/eq/t-3883.html

[koros]

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.

[Victorio]

Bump

[Nycon43]

Bump.

[eisley]

Yep. Anyone who played a pvp server as a necro or shaman, knows how many ticks ebolt was. 8 on enemies, 9 on yourself.

Time for this one to be squashed.