Why You Shouldn't Use Fracture

[Sapphidia]

You're uninformed on DoTs, sadly, Sentinel. DoTs DO crit (heck Bards get a talent that procs on DOT crits), they DO snapshot, and the 3 second server tick merely means that in some situations you can get an -extra- tick, but you'll always get the 10 ticks for a 30 second fracture - if you apply it too early such that it doesnt tick on the 30 second point, you'll get the extra tick at the start. The only time the dot timer will affect the amount of ticks a dot gives is if the DoT length isnt a multiple of 3. But most are.

You can show that dots Snapshot because if you pop it with a cooldown up, right at the end of the cooldown, the DoT will continue to tick with the same strength it was applied, and indeed you wont be able to refresh the DoT until it's run out because your non-buffed DOT is viewed as inferior and wont overwrite it.

Skillspeed is the only thing that doesnt affect DoTs, and skillspeed is viewed as a poor stat anyway.

[Sentinel]

Ok, I just tested it, and yer right, they do snapshot, I guess I misunderstood the video. Though, they do refresh (to the lower strength) if I try to refresh it again midway.

Only time I can think of using this is when I pop berserk and unchained along with bloodbath for the extra damage/health returned. Or else, the lack of hate generation is a downer.

[Kitru]

the 3 second server tick merely means that in some situations you can get an -extra- tick, but you'll always get the 10 ticks for a 30 second fracture - if you apply it too early such that it doesnt tick on the 30 second point, you'll get the extra tick at the start.

That's really interesting. I had to go in and check it myself and it susses out: if you apply at just the right time, you'll get 11 ticks, which is really interesting. Rather than overestimating DoT damage by using duration/3 it's actually a slight underestimation.

[Sapphidia]

Yep, it's -incredibly- hard to time but take 30 second fracture, it does the 20 potency ticks every 3 seconds at 3, 6, 9 etc... with the last at 30.. but that's assuming you apply it at 00:00 on the clock. If you apply it a millisecond before you'll get an extra tick at 0 seconds and it could well still be up for the 10th tick at 30 seconds. You'll always get at least 10 ticks.

Of course, the occasional chance for Fracture to be a 320 potency attack isnt really worth factoring in, but at least you know it'll always be a guaranteed 300.