How to Be a ACN/SMN.(Accepting any and all feedback)

[xxalucard]

This makes no sense at all. Why would you use M2 when you can simple use a Ruin or Ruin 2?

Because with contagion the tics & initial hit add up to more than a crit ruin.

I tested a contagion'd miasma 2 just now on a dummy, and the damage was:

Initial hit: 53
Tics: 26 26 27 26 25 27 26 26 26 27

Added together I got 315, which is about the same as a crit ruin. However, in that random test, NONE of my dot tics crit. Assuming that one or two of them crit, it would be more damage than possible with a crit ruin (higher than the possible crit range).

Just for reference, my ruins crit between ~300 and ~326 (outside of a party, unbuffed).


Another thing to factor in is the way some bosses work (jump / disappear & reappear), and the fact that your dots, including Miasma II, can give extra tics while the boss is off screen, or at least give you some extra damage the same moment they become targetable/vulnerable (if they are invulnerable during phase changes).