Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
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I can’t speak for other Scholars, but personally I enjoy spreading the PvP DoT because of the additional effect.

8% damage down isn’t much, but it can still be enough to keep someone alive where they otherwise wouldn’t, especially with fixed attack potency. Contrast that with Adloquiums 8% damage buff which is mostly the same - doesn’t sound like much, but it can still assist with people getting kills where they otherwise might not have managed to get the enemy low enough before they spam Recuperate etc.

It creates an interesting situation where you have to decide whether you want to leverage the maximum damage potential of Biolysis, maximise uptime on the damage buff from Adloquium, or a balance the two. Or even things like, if there’s a bunch of battle highs slightly further from the alliance, do you Biolysis one of them to make them less lethal or target the main alliance for pressure/kills. The two charges on Deployment Tactics and being 15 second cool-down means you can ever either keep one going indefinitely by constantly reapplying or need to consider the situation when using the two.

For me it’s not the DoT itself that’s interesting, it’s the ways in which it can be tactically applied based on the situation and the necessity of balancing uptime between Biolysis with Adloquium is what makes it enjoyable in the end. I also feel like, without some kind of additional effect on them that need for balance wouldn’t exist in normal PvE. If they just made Biolysis spread with Deployment as it is now, it wouldn’t really be much of a decision. Either Adloquium shielding would be so necessary you could never spread DoTs or Biolysis damage would be good you’d never spread Adloquium.