Scholar: Returning to Roots

[Eloah]

So Shadowflare did NOT do damage over time, is what you're saying.

Really?

It's right there in what I said "considered more of a ground target then a DoT." I never said it didn't do damage over time, just that system-wise its function was as a ground target. Most offensive ground targeting skills use a damage over time effect, but no one ever refers to them as DoTs in the same sense as Bio, Thunder, Aero. Most ground targets are also oGCD, Shadowflare was unique in that regard until SB, where it was turned into an oGCD. No one ever referred to Flaming Arrow, Doton, or Salted Earth as DoTs. The easiest way to to look at it is that not all ground targeting skills are DoTs and not all DoTs target the ground.