Connecting the DoTs: A Summoner Guide

[Sleigh]

OP are you sure about Shadow Flare being separate from the server? My current testing is showing it's like any other DoT and is completely tied to the universal 3s timer. There aren't double ticks available with good refreshing timing as you suggest, unless I'm missing something.

It is a separate DoT tick from B2/M/B but it's just delayed on the display and as far as I can tell it's still at the same rate in practice.

Edit: I'm not sure what's going on with it, been watching it the last few minutes.

Seems to have its own duration independent of universal DoTs, this is true. It won't mold down or up to the latest DoT upon cast, as standard DoTs actively do. But, the DoT timer is not related to its duration (IE you can get a tick at any second of the duration unlike Bio which will always give a tick at 15s, 12s, 9s, etc of the timer remaining), and unlike B2/M/B it follows its own timer you can't tinker with by casting it or not, it's either related to the universal tick just delayed slightly or it's its own separate tick, still universal in a sense.

Regardless I've never gotten a double tick.

[Havenchild]

OP are you sure about Shadow Flare being separate from the server? My current testing is showing it's like any other DoT and is completely tied to the universal 3s timer. There aren't double ticks available with good refreshing timing as you suggest, unless I'm missing something.
It is a separate DoT tick from B2/M/B but it's just delayed on the display and as far as I can tell it's still at the same rate in practice.

Edit: I'm not sure what's going on with it, been watching it the last few minutes.

Seems to have its own duration independent of universal DoTs, this is true. It won't mold down or up to the latest DoT upon cast, as standard DoTs actively do. But, the DoT timer is not related to its duration (IE you can get a tick at any second of the duration unlike Bio which will always give a tick at 15s, 12s, 9s, etc of the timer remaining), and unlike B2/M/B it follows its own timer you can't tinker with by casting it or not, it's either related to the universal tick just delayed slightly or it's its own separate tick, still universal in a sense.

Regardless I've never gotten a double tick.

I will admit you can't reliably replicate it but like you said, it's separate entirely and procs randomly according to it's own timer. If I'm not mistaken, the maker of ACT stated it's NOT on a universal clock even on it's own timer but possibly adjusting per ShadowFlare cast.

So more like the last tick of the previous one procd, then after you recasted it, it procd immediately again within the same second.

Various reddit posts explored the fact that ShadowFlare in particular is quite a unique skill.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...parser_plugin/
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...w_discoveries/
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ming_research/