Hello all,

Having seen several posts across the forum talking about Foe's Requiem's being a DPS booster for BRD, I decided to test the actual abilities and see just how strong the effect was. The abilities from BRD under discussion are Foe's Requiem, Venomous Bite, Windbiter, and Flaming Arrow. For Flaming Arrow, I also had no information regarding how it interacts with buffs, so I decided to test that, as well.

To test, I would approach an enemy, use the relevant DOT on them, and quickly hit ESC to cancel auto-attacks. I would then visually observe the DOTs tick to see if the numbers varied significantly in the presence of the Requiem debuff. Enemies would be pulled with the Foe's Requiem debuff aggro for that section of testing in order to avoid any question as to whether it had applied before attacking.

I first tested Windbiter, as that seemed to strike the balance between useful and dubious. Without Requiem, my DOT ticks were doing around 60 to 65 damage. With Requiem, I expected to see them reach the upper 60s, occasionally touching the 70s. Instead, the range remained unmoving around 60. Well, as I said, Windbiter was dubious to start with.

My Windbiter dreams dashed, I decided to continue on to Venomous Bite, expecting a repeat performance from Windbiter. I was not disappointed. Before and after numbers were both in the ~48-52 range.

I then moved on to Flaming Arrow. First, the plain ticks of damage were doing ~75 damage. I initially assumed that it was just critting, as that's the damage I would expect of a critical Venomous Bite, which is also 35 potency. Then I noticed that *all* of the ticks were in this range. All of them. Even when I pulled three enemies at the same time, all 30 ticks were in the 75 range, completely unbuffed. In other words, there appears to be an error in the tooltip, and, simultaneously, Flaming Arrow never crits. Or, the tooltip is right, but it has 100% crit chance. . .Anyway, the numbers didn't change at all with Requiem up, even though Flaming Arrow seemed most likely to be affected. With that out of the way, I tested Raging Strikes (applied before using Flaming) and saw no results there, either.

In conclusion, I'd like to open the floor to critiques of my method or collaboration, whichever you prefer. I'd just like to get accurate information out, so if you could please keep things structured.