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Direct damage attacks: what, exactly, is this?
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Panomania✭✭✭✭Sorry to necro this, but saw a lot of confusion and thought I'd try to help.
From my understanding, talking and parsing, in general DoT's and AoE attacks are not direct damage....but for some (not all) the first hit from the DoT or AoE IS considered direct.
Hope that helps.The opinions of others should always be heard, especially if they dont agree with your own! But you always reserve the right to laugh at them.1 -
Gandrhulf_Harbard✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭mesmerizedish wrote: »AoEs can be direct damage or damage over time. It depends on the specific spell or ability.
The game really needs to include this information on the skill tooltips.
That assumes ZoS actually knows which is which.
Some of the attempts to "balance" combat would suggest they don't.
All The BestThose memories come back to haunt me, they haunt me like a curse.
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse.2 -
mairwen85✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Merlin13KAGL wrote: »Yeah, as they should know.
An almanac...could even be a lorebook in game, listing all skills, all morphs and a nice neat little grid indicating what kind of categories they fall under.
They could even leave it to us to figure out which part was which, as long as you knew something did something somewhere.
(You can use Scathing Mage too, but 2 pc Monster is usually far easier to come by.)
You should poll this. There is probably a user/community created one, or an addon somewhere that provides this detail -- but an official, in game volume would be awesome, and well over due.Edited by mairwen85 on July 21, 2019 7:22PM0 -
Heyodude✭✭✭As of right now Direct damage has 2 contributors. 1 being all single target abilities such as psijic weapon, Cleave, ect. If its flat out damage its direct damage.
sort of... the 2nd and commonly missed direct damage is the initial hit of any ground based aoe, liquid lightning, caltrops ect. the very first tick of damage on your ground based aoes is considered direct damage, i dont know why, seems like extra coding that could create alot of unseen issues, rather than keeping direct damage and damage over time regardless, depending on their functionality. But there you have it.
I do believe the developers are currently fixing it to be that dots are dots and direct damage is direct damge no matter what. Good move, but their track record of implementing changes is not an A to B scenario.0 -
TwIsTeDReDQuEeN✭✭✭@Gilliamtherogue, please help the community as you always have, by breaking this down in a sticky thread!! I know you made a vid about it a long time ago but I cant find it lol. Also it would help if the tooltips were updated in a future patch to include this obscure info! Tia!1