Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Viridiana]

Okay. What's DoT clipping?

Also, DoT damage not increased by disembowel? What?

And what should I put in that cross-class skill slot instead of Fracture, then?

"Clipping" is when you refresh it before it drops off. Before, if you had a buffed version up it was impossible to clip at all. Nowadays you just have to make sure you don't clip excessively. How much is considered excessive varies by dot, but you usually don't want more than ~3 seconds or so.

I can't comment on the disembowel thing, because I don't actually play DRG, but that's what the forums report, so I'll run with it. Same with the question of cross-class.

[YanderePrincess]

"Clipping" is when you refresh it before it drops off. Before, if you had a buffed version up it was impossible to clip at all. Nowadays you just have to make sure you don't clip excessively. How much is considered excessive varies by dot, but you usually don't want more than ~3 seconds or so.

So why would "DoT clipping" not being do-able be a reason to use Fracture?

[Riotpersona]

So why would "DoT clipping" not being do-able be a reason to use Fracture?

Because without artificially extending your rotation with fracture, causing chaos thrust/phleb to drop off, you wouldn't be able to overwrite it if it had previously been applied with a buff. The dot simply wouldn't apply at all.

[YanderePrincess]

Because without artificially extending your rotation with fracture, causing chaos thrust/phleb to drop off, you wouldn't be able to overwrite it if it had previously been applied with a buff. The dot simply wouldn't apply at all.

I never saw an inability to reapply my DoT while it was still up regardless of having been applied with a buff previously, on any class.

[Riotpersona]

I never saw an inability to reapply my DoT while it was still up regardless of having been applied with a buff previously, on any class.

This was changed in 2.1, but that was the reason DRG used fracture.

[YanderePrincess]

This was changed in 2.1, but that was the reason DRG used fracture.

I pretty much played DRG exclusively pre-2.1 and seriously don't remember ever having that issue. Not gonna say it wasn't the case, just don't remember it ever happening/being an issue.