Connecting the DoTs: A Summoner Guide

[Havenchild]

Considering optimal, I've wanted to attempt Death Flare and/or Pain Flare just as the melee picks up their add, to hit my add, 0.5 and the melee's add.

I've did this before, but I started to feel like I was losing more damage trying to recast DoTs on my add and killing it with Ruin II spam. Not to mention the damage you lose just to kill something sooner and your DoTs don't go for full duration. At the same time, if something happens that potentially kills your add ahead of time like a DoT before its positioned, that's another issue. You can certainly get off a Bane and Painflare though. That's usually what get's me my third stack of Aetherial for DWT sooner after.

[OneWingedSora]

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Unfortunately, my melees complain if I bane the adds since they have to hold back on their add which would be a DPS loss for them. Sometimes I might sneak in an Aerial Slash or Enkindle but that's about it. Also, you can take your add next to the boss, hit it with a Deathflare to hit both your add+boss, then take it back to the missile point. I usually pull my add with Painflare(which fills up my Alteration stacks) which hits both my add and the 0.5 , go into DWT, reapply buffed DoTs on the Add+Opressor+0.5(which should be falling off at this point) and then just finish off the add with R2s.