Question on shields against DoTs

[Peacecow]

So I was reading the in the sub-forum on how others handle the bleed on ozma and saw an interesting? post. Person said to "medicaII&asylum/succor then esuna away." I get the medica part, but succor? do shields prevent dot damage? never really looked close enough for me to notice, and Google's not helping.
Cause idk why, but I always felt as if shields block incoming damage, while dots aren't seen as "incoming" to me. ?.?

[Zari]

Shields do prevent that damage if I remember correctly. Though as a SCH i usually just use Fey Caress to aoe esuna the bleed when it pops up

[ADVSS]

yep its how i handled bosses in toto rak or that annoying guildhest with the blue bubbles as a sch without esuna, adlo and stoneskin absorb the damage, you can test this in labrynth of anciencts as a pld with stoneskin during the behemoth fight will tick for 0 till the shields fade

[Peacecow]

nice! now I have another way to prevent a potential wipe, lol like when selene is on CD and 5/8 ppl got 2+bleed a succor just might hold the tide a bit longer

[Sida]

Another way to handle the bleeds is for people to spread. It's small aoe targeted to player which can stack. It's not, if I recall right, targeted to same person twice. So if everyone take just one hit (the one targeted to themselves) they get one stack at most which goes away soon enough to not cause much problem. But since people like packs, they get hit by more of those than necessary. I understand that the melee need to stay close to ozzy, but on triangle phase there is no reason for people to stack apart from meteor avoidance.

[Nekotee]

The bleed DoT damage are kinda direct damage so adlo or succor absorb them as well (i remember A4 Nisi, a critadlo would take up to 3 tick without going off)

Agree to Sida, people are suppose to spread in prévision for the bleeding splash incoming
Even with 3 melee they can spread out easily and still DPS

[Parawill]

Priority as a Scholar, at least for the DoT @ Ozma) should be Indomitability -> Queuing Selene's Fairy Caress -> Succor as a safeguard. To answer your question though, galvanize shields almost any damage in exception to the unavoidable raid AoE in the last boss of LoTA (not Flare).

[mp-please]

Depending on the dot you can stop it from applying altogether.

[KarstenS]

do shields prevent dot damage?

We have in this game 2 ways of getting DoTs and Debuffs.

1. The ability of the enemy does just put up the DoT/Debuff -> no way to prevent it with shields.

2. The ability of the enemy does some damage and put up a DoT/Debuff -> in the most cases, when you fully migitate the direct damage of that ability with shields, you also prevent the DoT/Debuff.

[Ekimmak]

Not related to the dots, but do Healers actually want things to be more difficult on Ozma?

I saw a person in Weeping City today saying that it's ok to have stacking meteor impacts (not stacking close enough to explode, just stacking enough that there's no safe spot out of meteor range) because it makes things interesting for the healer. I'm a tank, not a healer, so I wouldn't know better, but...

Is healing Ozma really so simple that it's ok to be lazy with mechanics like that?