Dot Cliping

[MalcherioN]

Hello everyone, I don't know if this has been asked before. But I remember a blue post saying that they want to fight back at the dot cliping problem.
So my question is... How exactly is this going to work?
Will it work like Living Bomb is working right now (Won't let you reapply before it's over) or will recasting a DoT will add to its duration?

Thanks in advance

[Beyz]

basically it means that if you cast in between the last dot tick and the 2nd last dot tick, it won't be a dps loss

[Tarantism]

Dot Clipping should be a dps loss as far as I am concerned. I don't see why blizzard would change this. Perhaps I am missing something.

[Rivin]

Dot Clipping should be a dps loss as far as I am concerned. I don't see why blizzard would change this. Perhaps I am missing something.

Because they didn't like it? The new model should be much nicer.

[Skollvaldr]

basically it means that if you cast in between the last dot tick and the 2nd last dot tick, it won't be a dps loss

that was not the question. the op knows what clipping is...

to answer the question: recasting before the dot is over will simply add up the remaining and the new duration.

[Haven]

Dot Clipping should be a dps loss as far as I am concerned. I don't see why blizzard would change this. Perhaps I am missing something.

It is now a big gain on live. You blast all your cooldowns and apply a dot - it is powered up by cooldowns and trinkets. Then you overwrite it just before the last tick - and it continues, still as powerful as if it was buffed by cooldowns. Blizz turned it off. Not sure how.

[Ssateneth]

It is now a big gain on live. You blast all your cooldowns and apply a dot - it is powered up by cooldowns and trinkets. Then you overwrite it just before the last tick - and it continues, still as powerful as if it was buffed by cooldowns. Blizz turned it off. Not sure how.

Yeah, it was OP. locks used the trinket from the icc 5 mans that increased your crit rating by 900 something, and they cast corruption with that buff up, and kept rolling it with a super high crit.

[Abandon]

Dot Clipping should be a dps loss as far as I am concerned. I don't see why blizzard would change this. Perhaps I am missing something.

Yeah, losing out on a lot of DPS because of Latency is such an awesome design.

[Koto_and_Juri]

It is now a big gain on live. You blast all your cooldowns and apply a dot - it is powered up by cooldowns and trinkets. Then you overwrite it just before the last tick - and it continues, still as powerful as if it was buffed by cooldowns. Blizz turned it off. Not sure how.

I read that blizz is making dots check atats for each tick, so if you get a proc or lose a proc mid-duration, it will show it's effect immidiately.

[Abandon]

Just to clarity this:

Corruption and Shadow Word: Pain do not keep all buffs from when you first cast them. The only buffs they keep are ones which increase your damage by X%, such as Malygos sparks, and ones which provide either Haste of Crit rating. Spellpower does not stay at the level it was when you first cast it, it is re-calculated to your current Spellpower every time you refresh the DoT. Shadow Word: Pain does not scale with Haste, so only Crit and % damage modifiers work. According to the notes n Wowhead Corruption also refreshes to your current Haste, so the only things you can keep refreshed are X% damage increase buffs, and Crit buffs.

[Haven]

I read that blizz is making dots check atats for each tick, so if you get a proc or lose a proc mid-duration, it will show it's effect immidiately.

Oh this is nice. Elegant and simple.

[allforone]

It is now a big gain on live. You blast all your cooldowns and apply a dot - it is powered up by cooldowns and trinkets. Then you overwrite it just before the last tick - and it continues, still as powerful as if it was buffed by cooldowns. Blizz turned it off. Not sure how.

It was a bug, and it did work both ways(we had to reapply corruption for things like death's embrace). As for how it worked, as I understand it, it only really applied to Affliction locks because of the ability to reset the timer on Corruption through shadow bolt, Haunt and Drain life/soul. You could roll %dmg increases, like Haunt and Death's Embrace, as well as crit increases like nevermeltice from HPoS, by refreshing Corruption through Everlasting Affliction until you hit Corruption again.

[Haven]

It was a bug, and it did work both ways(we had to reapply corruption for things like death's embrace). As for how it worked, as I understand it, it only really applied to Affliction locks because of the ability to reset the timer on Corruption through shadow bolt, Haunt and Drain life/soul. You could roll %dmg increases, like Haunt and Death's Embrace, as well as crit increases like nevermeltice from HPoS, by refreshing Corruption through Everlasting Affliction until you hit Corruption again.

It was also described as a strategy in many hunter guides - to clip a buffed Serpent Sting by reapplying Serpent Sting.