Connecting the DoTs: A Summoner Guide

[pandabearcat]

Ifrit is fantastic. I dunno what you're going on about.

[Sunako]

In dummy fight there is not that much difference between garuda and ifrit anymore what it was before. Ifrit utility now depends heavily how you can utilize radiant shield. Or that it is from my testings. Correct me if i m wrong.

[Minorinz]

So i'm testing a lot of stuff with radiant shield with a friend:

1- Radiant shield will reflect all physical damage ranged or melee depending on str/dex(scales with those stats, anything slashing, piercing, or blunt). So for example titan stomps are a good example or even ravana's stomps. So x4 stomps = 4x400 total. 50 potency per person.
2- When you are under the effect of stoneskin or galvanize and are taking 0 damage you are still reflecting physical damage. So basically it's the damage outgoing from the enemy being done back instead of being reflected from you.
3- Buffs affect radiant shield so b4b raging strikes etc all buffs the reflected damage.
4- Radiant shield is unlimited on the amount of mobs so if you pull the whole dungeon and activate radiant shield everything hit you will be hitting themselves repeatedly until it falls off. So on tanks that's pulling a lot of trash that's a really good dps boost (if most of the damage suffered is physical).


I know some of this information is known but just to confirm!
edit: it's 450 including ifrit so not 400 i think, with eos maybe it's 500

[Kicoe]

Also to add to what Yuni wrote, going through ACT there might be troubles with the program tracking Radiant Shield correctly based on a couple of Ravana fights. Timing it with stomps and whatnot the amount of hits Radiant Shield does just doesn't add up if you have a look at the individual players, atleast it doesn't add up for my parses at all.

[Minorinz]

ACT is not tracking dots correctly in accordance with the new spellspeed/skillspeed buffs. People are doing higher than what ACT is parsing.

[OneWingedSora]

Both Titan and Ravana stomps are magical.

[Minorinz]

Both Titan and Ravana stomps are magical.

I can't imagine how awesome it would be if it was physical all the way, 500 potency each stomp lol

[KroLeXz]

Radiant Shield is tracked correctly, its both in the combat logs and memory. It is also not a dot, and for those reasons I determine that radiant shield is very under whelming and doesn't work like we think it works.

For example, I haven't confirmed but it looks like any type of shield or ability that neglects dmg will also neglect the proc from radiant shield. Also, currently the way it is tracked in ACT, the damage reads out from the person it proced from... so if you look under outgoing dmg from the tank, you will see radiant shield.

There truly isn't a very viable spot to use ifrit over garuda other than preference to the user.

[Minorinz]

Radiant Shield is tracked correctly...

Nobody said anything about it being a dot or a proc, it's instant raw damage being reflected or buffed directly. Not sure how ACT is calculating the damage, we tried tracking it after the fight by retrieving logs and it wouldn't even show that some people received the buff when they were all in range, even during cleaves. ACT seems a little lost atm but I'm sure it'll get fixed eventually.

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

There isn't a fight where there is a frequent physical aoe damage, but like I said titan/ravana's stomps would be insane damage since it's multiple hits in a row. Maybe even shiva's sword stance can do a physical aoe damage. I never kept count or cared about physical damage hits that were directed at the party but I guess it matters now. Also, when I'm saying 450-500 potency it's a cumulative.

[KroLeXz]

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.

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

"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.