Why does endless hail only tic 18 times and not 20?

OrphanHelgen

Every 0,5 seconds for 10 seconds.
Isn't that 20 hits?
Also, srendarr tells me my endless hail have 1 sec left of its duration after the 18th tic is done.

I think it start the counting of hits when endless hail are in the air, taken into consideration the time it takes to land the first hit on the enemies.
Would be nice with a fix here instead of the cheap solution of saying it's intended.

Izaki

Yeah the actual duration of the DoT is 8.5 seconds. The DoT takes about 2 seconds to start ticking.
An explanation would be really nice indeed.

DPShiro

IzakiBrotherSs wrote: »

Yeah the actual duration of the DoT is 8.5 seconds. The DoT takes about 2 seconds to start ticking.
An explanation would be really nice indeed.

@IzakiBrotherSs
Isn't this what Jeck and you discussed on Foundry? The other morph doesn't suffer from this right? But is it able to do a rotation around that?

Izaki

DPShiro wrote: »

IzakiBrotherSs wrote: »

Yeah the actual duration of the DoT is 8.5 seconds. The DoT takes about 2 seconds to start ticking.
An explanation would be really nice indeed.

@IzakiBrotherSs
Isn't this what Jeck and you discussed on Foundry? The other morph doesn't suffer from this right? But is it able to do a rotation around that?

@DPShiro
Yeah exactly, that's what me and Jeckll were talking about and Asayre peeped in as well. And now we've gotten to talking about it with @OrphanHelgen too lol. The other morphs also suffers from this and therefore only ticks for 6.5 seconds instead of the 8 seconds that it should be ticking for. Its still possible to do a rotation around both, but the thing is that neither of the morphs actually last as long as they state on the tooltip. Endless Hail has a total duration of somewhere between 10.5-11 seconds and Arrow Barrage somewhere between 8.5-9 seconds. So basically not only the tooltip is misleading but on top of that, there's no sign of anything mentioning a "hard cast time".

So either clear up the tooltip or give us the missing ticks. Would improve stamina DPS greatly just with this fix.

OrphanHelgen

IzakiBrotherSs wrote: »

DPShiro wrote: »

IzakiBrotherSs wrote: »

Yeah the actual duration of the DoT is 8.5 seconds. The DoT takes about 2 seconds to start ticking.
An explanation would be really nice indeed.

@IzakiBrotherSs
Isn't this what Jeck and you discussed on Foundry? The other morph doesn't suffer from this right? But is it able to do a rotation around that?

@DPShiro
Yeah exactly, that's what me and Jeckll were talking about and Asayre peeped in as well. And now we've gotten to talking about it with @OrphanHelgen too lol. The other morphs also suffers from this and therefore only ticks for 6.5 seconds instead of the 8 seconds that it should be ticking for. Its still possible to do a rotation around both, but the thing is that neither of the morphs actually last as long as they state on the tooltip. Endless Hail has a total duration of somewhere between 10.5-11 seconds and Arrow Barrage somewhere between 8.5-9 seconds. So basically not only the tooltip is misleading but on top of that, there's no sign of anything mentioning a "hard cast time".

So either clear up the tooltip or give us the missing ticks. Would improve stamina DPS greatly just with this fix.

Yeah thats correct, I can confirm. Tested barrage now, and it did 14 hits. So endless hail still the way to go for pve dps, specially with maelstrom bow, but according to tooltip and addons duration tracker, it is not correct.