Ghostextechnica wrote: »Seems like a silly question - in most games you would head to your skillbook and it would say "Direct Damage" or "Damage over time (Dot)" or "Aoe", however, as far as I can tell there's no easy way to work out which skills are classified as dots and would therefore benefit from putting CP into 'Thaumaturge' (increases dot damage).
Is boneyard a dot? It seems more like AOE to me, but I hear it's a dot? What about shocking siphon? It seems to tick over time?
Would love to know for the following skills:
- Mystic Siphon
- Stalking Blastbones
- Unnerving Boneyard
- Unstable Wall of Elements (destro staff skills)
willjones1122 wrote: »Wall of elements is a dot. It's phrasing is different due to the spell creating a sort of hazard area a target could get in and out of (unlike a bleed or burn type effect which can only be cleansed) So the tooltip can't say do x damage over x second because it doesn't know how long the target will actually be in the area. It for ease of understanding/maths. And as for solar barrage it works in a similar way as you never know how long things will stand in stupid. BUT i believe solar barrage used to be considered a dot and was changed due to the fact that everything a templar did was basically a dot. They revamped it so templars had to spread out their cp a bit... Could be misremembering as i didn't play templars when this change happened and so didn't pay that much attention to it.