dots dont seem to work at some points in boss fights??

Yep they work just fine :D

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Originally Posted by Suggestion

I main SMN

K ive been looking for the answer to this question on the internet for a long time and i guess im not wording it right.

I usually see it in Syrcus Tower ill be fighting the big bosses and then my dots stop working. I have it set up so i only see my dots while playing and it really annoys me. Then only thing that i can see as an explanation is i see the virus tick on the boss. And sometimes its not even up.

plz if you know what my struggle is id like to ask the community for help here.

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The game can only display a fix amount of DoTs. It might not show but it works.

IIRC there was something put out a while back that refers to the amount of DoTs a mob can have active on it. Something like a limit of 60 DoTs total but only 30 will show. It is possible that your DoTs are in the 31-60 spots, still ticking but just not seen. If they happen to be 61+ then they will definitely not show as they would not have even been applied.

After you toss out a DoT check your combat log to see if it was applied or if the floating text appeared confirming the application. I am curious though, since you have it set up to show only what you placed if the between 30-60 mark negates that option. Seeing as it doesn't show up on the boss, would it display for you. I am thinking not, since it is still calculated as 30+ and is programmed to not show.

Anyone else can chime in on this?

Yeah your DOT will still runs and you can see the +[DOT name] Indicator floats off on the target when you inflict it, just that it won't show on the HP bar due to limit. If I'm not wrong there is an option to only display all buff/debuff inflicted by you on the target, so you can always make sure you already inflicted that DOT.

Nah those dots do not work. If you use all your dots and fester after that, you notice your fester will hit 0 because of dot limit. The best way is using titan egi and spam ruin + energy drain and u can probably do more treat than any other class and easily get max rewards from the big bosses. In syrcus tower just do same without titan egi. Problems usually start once healers put their dots especially if there is many scholars that have 4 different dots on the boss.

See ive been told that before about the number dots visible on a single target. But if that was true i still should see damage ticks and then when i fester i should see that as well. In the description of virus there is something that says immune to fever??? I was wondering if this can keep some dots from ticking or if it just means no virus for the 60 sec duration.

Oh! and on a side note i recently did a titan run and my monk friend was complaining to me in chat that his dots weren't placing. And we saw that virus was in affect?? we couldn't think of anything else.

More thoughts on this would be great and if anyone who is experiencing similar issues please don't be afraid to speak up.

No worries about not having enough accuracy we are geared with 110 and above and missing 7 to ect dots in a row is not a normal occurrence i would think right?

Interesting. I wonder if, that when they changed the duration of fever, they messed something else up. Fever is supposed to not allow another virus for that duration. Perhaps it is effecting other DoTs erroneously?

another instance today my monk friend saw virus used and was not able to apply one of his dots afterward. Are there any known skills that cause an effect like this that im not aware of?

Should i just move this thread to the bugs forum?

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Originally Posted by Suggestion

Should i just move this thread to the bugs forum?

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It's not a bug, your question has basically been ansered by Synestr in the 3rd post.

The amount of active debuffs on a mob is capped at 60, which can be reached pretty quickly in ST or with A/S ranks, especially when healers help dps'ing etc...

Shouldn't be an issue at all though if you do not let your DoT's fall off, since if you reapply your own DoT it overwrites the prior one and doesn't count as a new one.
Maybe it's an issue with your own rotation and your DoT's fall off from time to time? No offense, just an idea... ^^