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reactive dot behavior changed

gSOLO

By gSOLO,
Posted on: 2011-07-01 09:36 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion

 

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So. Reactive used to tick for 5-6 ticks. Whatever, some number. Whatever your % of dot chance was, it would check EACH TICK, even if the previous one failed. So you would always have 5-6 chances to do damage.

Now, it appears to be functioning like the dots in fire blast - as soon as one check fails, the dot stops entirely.

WAI or yet another bug?

[edit: This charge appears to have come with the most recent patch to fix the aoes proccing on all targets every 10s.]

[edit2: OK, I could be wrong. It *may* just be the dot gfx that is vanishing, as I have seen the dot re-occur (bringing the gfx back) a couple times now.]

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So far as I know, each tick has a % chance, separate from the previous.

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Originally Posted by gSOLO View Post
So far as I know, each tick has a % chance, separate from the previous.
Yes, that is how it was functioning before. I think the dot gfx would stay the whole time as well (?). Something appears different now - on my alts with 50% dmg/25% debuff I'm frequently seeing the dot tick only once, then the gfx vanish and no further damage. At least once I saw the gfx re-appear and the dot tick one more time (with me doing nothing)... so I'm not quite sure what is happening.

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