Quote Originally Posted by Korashy View Post
Which brings me to a question, does this game have smart dots? Basically if I put a dot on the target and then refresh it, does it clip the dot ticks, or does it just smoothly extend duration only?
Heh. Lucky me, I found one of my older posts in the thread to help answer that.

It clips the amount of ticks that your previous application could have. For example, if you clip Shadow Fang at 3 seconds, you would receive five ticks instead of the usual six ticks, according to this formula: [(DoT Effect Duration)/3]. The clipped Shadow Fang had a lifetime of 15 seconds, therefore five ticks are expected. Remember, ticks are based on a server's timer, not your own DoT's timer

If you clip the first Shadow Fang at 3 seconds with another Shadow Fang refreshing the timer back to 18 seconds, you'd have 11 expected ticks; the five from the clipped and the six from the full, compared to two full Shadow Fangs with 12 expected ticks.