Everyone talks abouts DOT's but What are they?

POps75p · February 2017

I've been playing ESO since day one and never seen a dot, now granted i'm not a great player, although I do have a lot of CP and do about 19k dps (doing the new dummies).. So could some please to me how I go about seeing these dots.

tks in advance
[edited for profanity bypass]

SquareSausage · February 2017

Dots is the accronym for Damage over time effects.

POps75p · February 2017

SquareSausage wrote: »

Dots is the accronym for Damage over time effects.

wow, learn something new every day... tks

Lynx7386 · February 2017

SquareSausage wrote: »

Dots is the accronym for Damage over time effects.

This. Any ability that causes the target to take an amount of damage over an amount of time. Dots can be bleed, poison, or even Magic based like burning.

For the purposes of things like thaumaturge, channeled abilities also count as damage over time effects.

PlaceboSoul · February 2017

So, if you've been playing long enough to start earning cp, I'm going to...assume this thread is a joke?

Damage
Over
Time

DOT

It stands for a spell or ability that does recurring damage to a target or area.

(Explained it, just in case it wasn't a joke)

POps75p · February 2017

PlaceboSoul wrote: »

So, if you've been playing long enough to start earning cp, I'm going to...assume this thread is a joke?

Damage
Over
Time

DOT

It stands for a spell or ability that does recurring damage to a target or area.

(Explained it, just in case it wasn't a joke)

I do know what DOT is, but when I read some of these threads they talk about looking at the DOTs, so I thought they were talking about something else vs damage over time. if you don't have numbers turned on, you don't see those as well

Bigevilpeter · February 2017

I'm surprised u've been playing eso for that long and only remebered to ask what a DoT is now

As others said it is damage over time

FuriousStar · February 2017

Hah! A terrible joke would be to say it's the proper helmet you wear when riding your horse.

You know, is your helmet DOT certified? NO!? Then don't let the guard catch you riding through town, LOL!

POps75p · February 2017

i'll find one of those threads where they about seeing the dot's and post it here when I find it. sure didn't sound like damage over time to me

PlaceboSoul · February 2017

Well, you have me curious now

NewBlacksmurf · February 2017

Some of those other threads that are DOTs

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/3850081#Comment_3850081

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/3849810#Comment_3849810

JamieAubrey · February 2017

No worries, I only resized HoT was Healing over Time

c0rp · February 2017

MOAAAAAAARRRRR DOOOOOOOOTS

sevomd69 · February 2017

c0rp wrote: »

MOAAAAAAARRRRR DOOOOOOOOTS

Now...[snip] is a DOOT?
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andreasranasen · February 2017

POps75p wrote: »

SquareSausage wrote: »

Dots is the accronym for Damage over time effects.

wow, learn something new every day... tks

You do! Yesterday I found out you could "/reloadui" I was like wuuuuuuuut

POps75p · February 2017

i couldnt find the specific posts that i was looking for solet me try to be a little more specific. the one i'm actually talking about is when people say just LINE UP THE DOT's? so what do they mean by lining up the damage over time?

Kodrac · February 2017

Some people call them bleeds even. #oldschool

Kodrac · February 2017

POps75p wrote: »

i couldnt find the specific posts that i was looking for solet me try to be a little more specific. the one i'm actually talking about is when people say just LINE UP THE DOT's? so what do they mean by lining up the damage over time?

Stacking DoT attacks.

altemriel · February 2017

every skill, that has "does X damage over X seconds" in its tooltip

POps75p · February 2017

altemriel wrote: »

every skill, that has "does X damage over X seconds" in its tooltip

talk to me in English here. give me a specific example of one, use gathard (spelling is wrong) the head and sholders of it or any one you want to use and as an example

srfrogg23 · February 2017

POps75p wrote: »

I've been playing ESO since day one and never seen a dot, now granted i'm not a great player, although I do have a lot of CP and do about 19k dps (doing the new dummies).. So could some please to me how I go about seeing these dots.

tks in advance

Did you mean this as more of an existential question?

"Like, we all know what DOTs are, man, but like, do we know what they really ARE, man?"

FuriousStar · February 2017

An example:

Mage guild's Structured Entropy skill...Bind an enemy with Chaotic magic, dealing 3168 magic damage OVER 14.4 seconds......

Stats low on that since it's not rank 4 yet. But this is a perfect example of DOT.

POps75p · February 2017

srfrogg23 wrote: »

POps75p wrote: »

I've been playing ESO since day one and never seen a dot, now granted i'm not a great player, although I do have a lot of CP and do about 19k dps (doing the new dummies).. So could some please to me how I go about seeing these dots.

tks in advance

Did you mean this as more of an existential question?

"Like, we all know what DOTs are, man, but like, do we know what they really ARE, man?"

I didn't say that, I know what damage over time is, or your DOT, but when people say in posts or tuts they talk about lining up the dots. how do you specifically go about lining up the dot's. I have no clue how to do that

R1ckyDaMan · February 2017

I know wht most of these lazy short terms mean but to me if someone is on fire they are burning not recieving damage over time lol I Iook at it from a visual point of view and not numbers too much.

srfrogg23 · February 2017

POps75p wrote: »

srfrogg23 wrote: »

POps75p wrote: »

I've been playing ESO since day one and never seen a dot, now granted i'm not a great player, although I do have a lot of CP and do about 19k dps (doing the new dummies).. So could some please to me how I go about seeing these dots.

tks in advance

Did you mean this as more of an existential question?

"Like, we all know what DOTs are, man, but like, do we know what they really ARE, man?"

I didn't say that, I know what damage over time is, or your DOT, but when people say in posts or tuts they talk about lining up the dots. how do you specifically go about lining up the dot's. I have no clue how to do that

I was just messing with ya.

Lining up the dots is basically casting more than one damage over time ability in a row, on a rotation, to keep them all going consistently.

DocFrost72 · February 2017

andreasranasen wrote: »

POps75p wrote: »

SquareSausage wrote: »

Dots is the accronym for Damage over time effects.

wow, learn something new every day... tks

You do! Yesterday I found out you could "/reloadui" I was like wuuuuuuuut

I bet you'll love /camp!

Agobi · February 2017

sevomd69 wrote: »

c0rp wrote: »

MOAAAAAAARRRRR DOOOOOOOOTS

Now...[snip] is a DOOT?

Damage Over OverTime...... pays alot better

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DurzoBlint13 · February 2017

POps75p wrote: »

altemriel wrote: »

every skill, that has "does X damage over X seconds" in its tooltip

talk to me in English here. give me a specific example of one, use gathard (spelling is wrong) the head and sholders of it or any one you want to use and as an example

Blood craze, endless hail, vampires bane, ash cloud, burning embers, volatile armor, noxious breath, suppression field, lightning form, jabs, shards, poison injection.....and the list goes on and on

Dreyloch · February 2017

DMuehlhausen wrote: »

[snip]

To this day I still laugh when I see that clip. Whoever made it was quite brilliant with all the word descriptions into pictures. I love that tail swipe rofl.
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QUEZ420 · February 2017

Buff, apply dots, weave light attacks n pop abilities n spam executes at 20% health n win ur rotation.

Prof_Bawbag · February 2017

PlaceboSoul wrote: »

So, if you've been playing long enough to start earning cp, I'm going to...assume this thread is a joke?

Damage
Over
Time

DOT

It stands for a spell or ability that does recurring damage to a target or area.

(Explained it, just in case it wasn't a joke)

News flash, not everyone is up with all things acronyms. There's still some I don't understand or have just found out recently. The one that springs to mind is 'BOP'. I thought it was a kind of dance, but no, turns out it's ZoS shafting those people who spend most of their time in dungeons. 'BiS' was another one i just learned recently.