gimme dots

[SpeckledBurd]

IIRC the reason they started moving away from DoTs and other effects for gameplay is because 1.0 spaghetti code makes it incredibly easy for those jobs to be broken in 24-mans, world bosses, and especially in Eureka/Bozja like content. Enemies can only have a certain number of debuffs inflicted on them and anything over that number simply fails to apply. It really hamstrung jobs that use DoTs and weakened any skills they used that required both dots being on a target to work.

[VentVanitas]

IIRC the reason they started moving away from DoTs and other effects for gameplay is because 1.0 spaghetti code makes it incredibly easy for those jobs to be broken in 24-mans, world bosses, and especially in Eureka/Bozja like content. Enemies can only have a certain number of debuffs inflicted on them and anything over that number simply fails to apply. It really hamstrung jobs that use DoTs and weakened any skills they used that required both dots being on a target to work.

There are ways for there to be DoT attacks without counting as a debuff, such as passive effects/entities like turrets/Esteem or ground based AoEs. I'm positive there are other methods I have not thought of either that plays around with the limitations of the engine as well. I think the bigger problem about a potential DoT job may be a bit more disappointing though, something as simple as SE not wanting to make a job that has people thinking "I can't see my numbers so I don't know if I'm doing well" perhaps.