1. #1

    Chenge to dots mechanics in 4.1

    Hello my fellow shadow priests,
    lately when I was training on a dummy I've noticed that after patch 4.1 the fixed duration timers for dots have changed and now reflect the haste you have.

    For example, Vampiric Touch lasted 15s before the patch hit, but now my tooltip says that VT lasts for 14,3s, my shadow word: pain lasts 19,1s instead of 18s and so on... Timers change with % of haste I have.

    In addition to that Mind Flay ticks went crazy after this patch. If you test mind flay ticks on a dummy with enabled 'floating combat text' option you can watch how many ticks your MF had.
    I noticed that after clipping the second tick (2 ticks for 1st cast) with new MF I get 3 ticks if I clip that second MF after 'second' tick, so instead of 4 ticks I get 5 ticks. 5 ticks from 2 MFs clipped after second tick.

    Is this a side effect of change made to fire mages dots mechanics?
    Intentional change, not mentioned in patch notes?
    Or just a tooltip clarification?

    Have anyone heard anything about it?

    PS. Please excuse my poor English.

  2. #2
    It's just a tooltip change.

  3. #3
    For the DoTs: It's a tooltip fix
    For Mindflay: It's a "bugfix". When chaincasting mindflay, you can no longer clip a tick. The clipped tick will be instead added to the next chained Mindflay.

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