10-12-2005, 07:17 PM
The 3.5 second rule is really a rule of thumb. It doesn't always apply.
Not always true. Some instants get no bonus, or a different bonus fraction.
True. Talents improving casting time do not affect +damage bonus.
Not true. The actual bonus varies spell to spell, and in previous patches, DoTs were completely ignored for +damage.
Immolate, a 2 second Burst then dot warlock fire spell, gets 20% of the bonus for its burst, and receives 57 percent of the bonus to its dot. Odd, no? IIRC, at one point, soul fire (6s cast) received zero bonus from +damage.
You must look for empirical +damage result charts or test these out for yourself. The 3.5 second formula simply doesn't always work, and there's a lot of balance changes done in patches both listed and unlisted.
TheWesson,Oct 12 2005, 02:01 PM Wrote:Instants are treated as 1.5 second spells
spells . . . made faster by talents . . . still get the damage boost based on the original casting-time
DoTs get 100% +damage spread out over their duration
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Not always true. Some instants get no bonus, or a different bonus fraction.
True. Talents improving casting time do not affect +damage bonus.
Not true. The actual bonus varies spell to spell, and in previous patches, DoTs were completely ignored for +damage.
Immolate, a 2 second Burst then dot warlock fire spell, gets 20% of the bonus for its burst, and receives 57 percent of the bonus to its dot. Odd, no? IIRC, at one point, soul fire (6s cast) received zero bonus from +damage.
You must look for empirical +damage result charts or test these out for yourself. The 3.5 second formula simply doesn't always work, and there's a lot of balance changes done in patches both listed and unlisted.