May The Force Be With You ! (managing the Sith Assassin's / Jedi Shadow's resources)

[Quiet]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe DOT dmg is based on your buffs at the time you cast the ability. So if your cooldowns are popped and you hit creeping tumor, your damage will be spread across each tick. If your CDs expire before the dot is finished, it still keeps going at the amount it was doing before when your CDs were active.

[frmorrison]

(04-07-2012 01:22 AM)Quiet Wrote:  Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe DOT dmg is based on your buffs at the time you cast the ability. So if your cooldowns are popped and you hit creeping tumor, your damage will be spread across each tick. If your CDs expire before the dot is finished, it still keeps going at the amount it was doing before when your CDs were active.

That is incorrect. DoTs take a snapshot of your stats for every tic.

[Quiet]

Ah, didn't know that. Belay my last

[Kaedis]

To be perfectly precise, every DoT in the game has a per-tick coefficient specified. For example, Creeping Terror adds 31.1% of your Force Damage Bonus to each tick. As Frmorrison stated above, this is calculated at the time of each tick, so popping a Power relic will amplify the damage (by amplifying your Damage Bonus) of each tick that occurs during the duration of the buff from the relic, regardless of whether the DoT was applied before or after the relic was activated.