Connecting the DoTs: A Summoner Guide

[Minorinz]

I'm referring to ACT calculating - ACT reads memory and calculates "DoTs", but upfront dmg is there for the reading... what you see is whats there - no calculation from ACT on those. What I was trying to suggest in my original post was, radiant shield is either not acting correctly or we don't understand the full scope on how it works.

You can attempt it yourself, dot with bio and watch it tick, keep observing it and record your highest tick and check ACTs highest recorded tick as well. There is an error margin and it's not insignificant. ACT simulates damage from what I understand? but it's not actual damage that you see as the flying text on your game screen, at least not for dots right now.

I can ask Ravhn to post directly if that will help with the explanation.

sure.

"When you say "neglect" what do you mean? I said earlier that even with stoneskin, you are reflecting the 50 potency damage regardless. "

No your not, if that was the case it was either before application or after the stoneskin broke, check it again. It also might behave on last buff applied? I never asked a healer if stoneskin and aldo is up, what gets eaten first.

nope, stoneskin'd then pulled the mob and apparently it ignores the 0 damage you are receiving and deals back the damage anyway, physical damage only. As far as I know 2 people tested it, would appreciate if more people did, so many people use succor+galvanize before any massive aoe magical or physical so if that nullifies radiant shield, it wouldn't make sense.

[KroLeXz]

Correct, when it comes to DoTs all he sees on the memory size is a huge chunk of dot dmg (everyones) ... there is a calculation that takes place at the level, I don't know the full science behind it - but as for radiant shield... its not a dot, it is stored in the combat log and in the memory as radiant shield damage - no calculation needed.

Last Ravanna I had I think a total of 3 to 4k radiant shield dmg... thats adding up everyones.

[Minorinz]

Correct, when it comes to DoTs all he sees on the memory size is a huge chunk of dot dmg (everyones) ... there is a calculation that takes place at the level, I don't know the full science behind it - but as for radiant shield... its not a dot, it is stored in the combat log and in the memory as radiant shield damage - no calculation needed.

Last Ravanna I had I think a total of 3 to 4k radiant shield dmg... thats adding up everyones.

ofc radiant shield is not a dot ^^"
That can't be right, if radiant shield is activated every other minute it should increase the tanks dps for 15 secs, so for say 8 mins including the cleaves it's way more. I shall test it when I can play.

[KroLeXz]

My main concern is our low single target dps - I can parse on a blm (which is not my main) in the 1150 range....a good pull on my smn I hit around 1050-60. I agree with what some of the people said on the forums, pet seem to be scaling incorrectly.

[Minorinz]

Total damage in 2:27 for an i154 warrior with radiant shield.
edit: final boss on fractal btw

[Odowla]

That seems.. Hilariously high.

I was getting 10 DPS on Rav EX solo tanking it - that's with the entire raid eating a cleave + main tank damage.

[Fatshine]

Apparently Ifrit does ALL magical damage now including auto attack, meaning Storm's Eye/Dancing Edge has no effect. Initially I thought only Dragon Kick stopped effecting Ifrit's DPS. Can anyone confirm with data? Also how are those openers looking? This is proving extremely challenging as a PS4 player who cannot parse. I don't want to bother my PC friends so much Q__Q.

[Havenchild]

Apparently Ifrit does ALL magical damage now including auto attack, meaning Storm's Eye/Dancing Edge has no effect.

I personally tested Ifrit and Titan, under the effects of slashing/ blunt / foe last week. The only thing that modifies their damage is Foe Requiem in terms of abilities.

[Minorinz]

Apparently Ifrit does ALL magical damage now including auto attack, meaning Storm's Eye/Dancing Edge has no effect. Initially I thought only Dragon Kick stopped effecting Ifrit's DPS. Can anyone confirm with data? Also how are those openers looking? This is proving extremely challenging as a PS4 player who cannot parse. I don't want to bother my PC friends so much Q__Q.

all converted to magical damage, has been confirmed by the patch notes 3.0 somewhere. If i remember right it has something to do with spellspeed influencing ifrit's skillspeed, not sure about this part but yeah foes buffs ifrit now.

[Koyuki38]

but Bards do not use Foes any more.

They are truly thinking that their self buff is better than buffing BLM and SMN, and now ifrit...

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