It applies after CHA.
Smoothing Caster DPS
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It applies after CHA.
Maybe I missed it while reading the thread but how do aoe's that are tied to other effects like blinds/root/stun work now? I'm curious if the blind part of an aoe is on the old resist code and the damage is on the new or if I will be blinded after each aoe since I will be taking at least some damage.
I can only say what I know from experience. Say in Frost when you try to mez priests on 4 pulls. They migitate mezz so bad now that the chanter has to chain mez and can only do it one mob. I do lierally mean chain mez. Now granted I only have overpowering calm I and enchanced control II but I still have to chain mez how will effect such mobs.
DDs with durations and DoTs with debuffs use the old system.
Mezz did not change. At all. If it doesn't deal damage it definitely did not change.
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It'll still show a resist message if damage is scaled all the way down to 0. Would just mean you literally did not have any chance to land it in the old system.
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Small Issue
Something I noticed playing with the change. It's really only an issue for certain mobs/situations, but can be a pain. Basically, having DoT's always land on me can take up a bunch of buff slots in a hurry. I was pulling insane researchers in FoB and getting 3 DoT's stacked on me. As a shaman, that's 4 slots I need to have free when engaging these guys if I want to self-HoT. Soloing them before the change I would get maybe two DoT's on me at once if I were unlucky (usually no more than one)... now it's guaranteed 3.
Admittedly not a huge issue as most mobs aren't going to stack that many DoT's on a player, but in this situation it was really annoying.
Something I noticed playing with the change. It's really only an issue for certain mobs/situations, but can be a pain. Basically, having DoT's always land on me can take up a bunch of buff slots in a hurry. I was pulling insane researchers in FoB and getting 3 DoT's stacked on me. As a shaman, that's 4 slots I need to have free when engaging these guys if I want to self-HoT. Soloing them before the change I would get maybe two DoT's on me at once if I were unlucky (usually no more than one)... now it's guaranteed 3.
Admittedly not a huge issue as most mobs aren't going to stack that many DoT's on a player, but in this situation it was really annoying.
TapeinV
Dalayan Elder
This is also an issue I'm having and the only thing I hate about this change. Dots that I just autoresisted before all land on me, eating up valuable buff spots
TapeinV
Dalayan Elder
This is also an issue I'm having and the only thing I hate about this change. Dots that I just autoresisted before all land on me, eating up valuable buff spots
Another big issue that we just encountered, previously on fights like Denos, we resisted next to every stun. This no longer happens. This is a very annoying problem.
Silosobi
Dalayan Pious Diety
I think both of these are a good way to go.
Having players mitigate dots is better in an ideal world, but with our limited buff slot client it is problematic.
Silosobi
Dalayan Pious Diety
I know you are just trolling...
I dont like relying on ult/primals for wizard dps, but with the aod changes wizards rarely top dps charts anymore.
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I haven't tested it in game yet but from first glances you went and changed the best necro tome and turned it into a piece of shit.. and packaged it as rebalanced
I don't understand most of the math posted but from what I can gather if I have two ranks of the tome done and cast caress (no resist adjust) and it lands any subsequent caress now has a -4% resist adjust if i recast it before it wears off?
Is this correct?
If so, how did you end up here from a FC rebalancing thread basically asking for the timer to be reduced or the spell being slightly changed?
I don't understand most of the math posted but from what I can gather if I have two ranks of the tome done and cast caress (no resist adjust) and it lands any subsequent caress now has a -4% resist adjust if i recast it before it wears off?
Is this correct?
If so, how did you end up here from a FC rebalancing thread basically asking for the timer to be reduced or the spell being slightly changed?
Silosobi
Dalayan Pious Diety
You are misunderstanding the tome: The more different dot types you have on the target the bigger - adjust there is. I think it got up to close to -50 with rank 4 and all 5 elements, which is pretty nice. I don't remember the exact numbers though. Also this is probably the wrong forum.
People were already complaining that it had become worthless. And I'm not sure where anyone packaged it as rebalanced? It's certainly different.
No. The resist adjusts are re-checked every tick in the new system. If you just cast Caress of Sivyana on something it will have no bonus. If you add on Marlow's Cremation before Caress wears off, subsequent ticks of both will have a -4 bonus resist adjust as long as they are both running. If you add in Claws of the Chill before either of those wear off, all three spells now have a -8 bonus resist adjust. Throw on Scitterpox and now everything has a -12 bonus resist adjust. If Caress wears off but Marlow's Cremation, Claws of the Chill and Scitterpox are still running, their next ticks will go back down to -8 bonus resist adjust. And so on.
Thinking on it I might switch it around so the first two ranks are worth bigger chunks than the last two. Right now the first ranks are worth -2 each and the last two are worth -3 each; should probably be the other way around.
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Moraelintz
Dalayan Elder
How much is a -12 resist adjust?