Degeneration and Scaling Rune bug

Mange

When you spec for Everlasting Magic in the mages guild line, these abilities get their duration increased but do not get the damage of the DoTs increased effectively nerfing your own damage since you are doing the same amount of damage over a longer period of time. DoTs are already generally weak in this game, considering how many abilities can instantly burst for the amount of damage you'll get from a DoT in 14 seconds, they are especially weak in PVP and losing damage on them because of increasing the duration is a terrible mechanic so I assume it's an overlooked bug.

GreasedLizard

Ya wondered about this, as no 'abilities' really benefit from longer duration. Perhaps Volcanic Rune, but at the cost of Degeneration

Brasseurfb16_ESO

While a bit off topic, the Templar has the exact same issue with Enduring Rays passive it increases the duration of all your Dawn's Wrath spells but doesn't increase the dmg of Sun Fire, reducing its overall damage over time.

Mange

Bump, still broken. Going to bump this after every patch to make sure it's acknowledged.

Mange

Bump, after reading the recent patch notes this wasn't mentioned at all.

Mange

Bump, still no mention of a fix for this or even signs of acknowledgement.

Comaetilico

GreasedLizard wrote: »

Ya wondered about this, as no 'abilities' really benefit from longer duration. Perhaps Volcanic Rune, but at the cost of Degeneration

no... not even volcanic... since it only makes the "rune" last longer and not the stun... so you actualy can leave the rune on the ground for 36 second instead of 30... but it will still stun for 4 sec on activation and not 4,8

Pyatra

DoT on a Crit Surge Sorc build can be very viable for survivability in large scale combat in PVP (Assuming you aren't hitting the same 6 guys everytime). Assuming you are using one of the DoT AoEs that actually can crit.

Mange

Well there wasn't any mention of fixing this in the notes, but they did increase the damage on degeneration which was a good change. Last time I am going to put this out there if it isn't stealth fixed when the server comes up I'll just respec everything to remove the passive I suppose.

rotatorkuf

i tested it out, the tooltip doesn't change (yay for fixed wording/tooltips/clarity....NOT)

but, the actual damage output stays the same (aka not nerfed) with the extra 2.4 seconds (from passive)

ex:

before passive, ticked for 40 damage over 12 seconds

after passive, ticked for 40 damage over 14.4 seconds

Deimos

rotatorkuf wrote: »

i tested it out, the tooltip doesn't change (yay for fixed wording/tooltips/clarity....NOT)

but, the actual damage output stays the same (aka not nerfed) with the extra 2.4 seconds (from passive)

ex:

before passive, ticked for 40 damage over 12 seconds

after passive, ticked for 40 damage over 14.4 seconds

So are you saying it adds 1 more tick for 40 dmg?

[Edit]: Ok I tested myself and going from Everlasting Magic 1/2 to 2/2 added one more tick to the dot, the individual dot dmg stayed the same, so overall it's not a nerf or buff to dmg, you just need to recast spell less.

Pixelex

Deimos wrote: »

[Edit]: Ok I tested myself and going from Everlasting Magic 1/2 to 2/2 added one more tick to the dot, the individual dot dmg stayed the same, so overall it's not a nerf or buff to dmg, you just need to recast spell less.

Is this info up-to-date and correct? ^^