Does BA snapshot when you cast it or when it hits the boss?
Does BA snapshot when you cast it or when it hits the boss?
I did a quick test on the dummy with my on-use engineering glove perk done at 40yd (for maximum travel time) and no proc items, one with BA fired at 0.5s (to see if on cast) and another with perk popped after firing out BA (to see if on hit). It seems to be calculated on cast since the latter yields the same result as my un-perked BA (15.8k vs. 16.8k). I may be wrong, it's late!
For science!
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AFAIK, all hunter shots are calculated on cast, except for Glaive Toss, which is calculated on hit.
I might be wrong, but I don't think I am.
Ain't BA a dynamic DoT much like aMoC is? So it'll update dmg on every tick.
On cast. /10 chars
This is false, but for a long time BA's damage has been so meaningless in comparison to its ability to proc LnL that no one was really concerned with "gaming" it to maximize its damage, especially since it had a longer CD than its duration. With the rise of AoC and CD reduction, that's changed a bit.
BA snapshots on cast. A lot of people in this thread are thinking of SS, which snapshots on hit.
source: try it on a dummy
I tried this on a dummy with my synapse again and I'm inclined to believe it's on hit like BA. I shot out my SrS when my synapse had ~0.5s on it at 40yd range and resulted in SrS tick equal to my SrS with nothing used. Just to make sure I then did another test with synapse used whilst SrS in midair and it ticked with the modified damage.
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