Haven't used GoSac for a while, did they end up changing it so the Chaos Bolt dots don't get overwritten by subsequent chaos bolts?
Haven't used GoSac for a while, did they end up changing it so the Chaos Bolt dots don't get overwritten by subsequent chaos bolts?
Last edited by Netherspark; 2013-01-13 at 02:35 AM.
It still clips, but there's never a reason to Chaos Bolt twice in a row. Just stick an Incinerate between your 2 Chaos Bolts.
There has never been a problem with Chaos Bolt DoT clipping, because while the DoT does clip, the remaining damage of the previous DoT is added to the damage of the new DoT (ie. no damage is lost).
Depends on what you mean by clipping. The DoT works exactly as other DoTs in the game do in that refreshing it causes you to gain ticks with the next dot (no lost total duration) but the damage of those refreshed DoTs is based off of the stats you had when the refresh happened. So if you had a super beefy Chaos Bolt hit and then a weak one refresh it, you'll get 2 ticks of awesome damage followed by 4 ticks of not-so-awesome damage.
It is still possible to clip it if you manage to get the second chaos bolt to hit before the 2nd tick, but that's pretty difficult to do in practice, and is easily preventable.
---------- Post added 2013-01-12 at 09:45 PM ----------
No it doesn't. No need to worry about clipping in 99% of situations you'd encounter. The only time it's possible to lose a tick (clipping) is if the travel time of the second chaos bolt is significantly shorter than the travel time of the first, which rarely happens.
---------- Post added 2013-01-12 at 09:47 PM ----------
That's not true. Shortly after they changed it to a DoT component the DoT didn't function like a normal DoT and just clipped and you lost ticks. However they hotfixed the DoT to function like other warlock DoTs (including pandemic) like a day or so after the patch went live. It's still possible to clip (see my previous posts), but is significantly harder. It was that just casting 2 in a row would cause loss of ticks which SUCKED.
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As far as I know (all thanks to Zumzumzumzumzumzum etc. lol) it does not clip.
The only way it can clip is if for example, you cast your first Chaos Bolt from 30 yards away, then cast the other one from like 5 yards without the first one ticking twice.
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I always thought it worked like Ignite, which would make more sense given the nature of the spell, but you're right it works just like any other DoT. You only want to refresh it just before the last tick, so that last tick is brought over to the second DoT. Since they removed the Pandemic smoothing, the new DoT's damage will be completely overwritten, but this will even out on average, so in any case the point is that you probably won't lose any damage because of this GoSac mechanic, unless the mob gains damage reduction, goes immune or dies before the DoT expires.
I'd say it's not rly a huge problem as the dot shoud pretty much run out before your next chaos bolt is cast and hits the target (unless u've got some proc or something) i usualy use a felflame before my second chaos bolt just to make the damage seem more spiky
Why the hell would you do that ?i usualy use a felflame before my second chaos bolt just to make the damage seem more spiky
Last edited by xskarma; 2013-01-13 at 10:23 PM.
Nice flame baiting.
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...Chaos-Bolt-DOT
Funny how most of the posts in that thread agree with what I said. I don't play Destro, I was just repeating the way of handling the DoT that was given in that thread. No need to flame me about it.
In regards to "98% bullshit", I spend most of my time on these forums trying to explain how to weave Meta for max Shadowflame damage. Feel free to tell me that's bullshit.
Last edited by Teye; 2013-01-13 at 10:21 PM.
It has been hotfixed just after the patch.Funny how most of the posts in that thread agree with what I said. I don't play Destro, I was just repeating the way of handling the DoT that was given in that thread. No need to flame me about it.
I think so too,20% should be increaed to CB,rather than a dot.
Chaos Bolt hits for 170k in my full malevolent lock with all cooldowns up. 90k without.
With 410k health pools against people in equivalent gear+fortitude, I really don't see why the dot is needed anymore.