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    Tani Shirai
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    Cactuar
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    Monk Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
    Not a critique, just more a curiosity on my part:

    Can you generate a Healer damage idea that has no DoTs?
    DoTs are just two things:
    1. Soft CDs (you can, for near-proportionately reduced value, reuse them before their "ideal" timer; being late to use them also does not therefore cascade increasingly towards some punishing level of desync, as they can be easily corrected)

    2. per target (meaning that more targets = more [simultaneously-recharging] charges of that soft CD = more available exploitation up to the point where they're overtaken by AoE spammables anyways) that therefore appear on your Target's Status Effects instead of your Status Effects (which makes them easier to track for some, harder to track for others).

    Take off the latter portion, and voila, you've got a similar effect, just with a slightly lower skill ceiling in what few contexts have lie between purely single-target and AoE-spam-is-optimal.

    Adjusted Sample:

    DPS Spells
    • Broil IV - Deals 150 potency.
    • Bio III - Deals 350 potency. 3-second recast time. Damage is reduced to 70 potency after use, increasing back to 350 potency over 12 seconds after completing its recast time. Applies 1 stack of Virus; only 1 Virus can be applied by Bio III at a time.
    • Miasma III - Deals 580 potency. Damage is reduced to 100 potency after use, increasing back to 580 potency over 24 seconds. Applies 1 stack of Virus; only 1 Virus can be applied by Miasma III at a time.
    • Fester - 100 potency on targets with no virus stacks. 240 potency on targets with 1 virus stack. 510 potency on targets with 2 virus stacks.
    • Shadowflare - Deals 750 potency. Damage is reduced to 75 potency after use, increasing back to 750 potency over 30 seconds.
    The problem, of course, is that you then make SCH an exceedingly bursty assassin whose 750*1.3 relative-potency Shadowflare would deal over 333% of the AoE damage of an actual Flare (even when using AF3 and the highest value of Enochian), since TTK no longer acts at all as a limiting factor.
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    Last edited by Shurrikhan; 09-07-2023 at 07:32 AM.