Spells: Dot Stacking - not a bug

Mazoku · #1 03-07-2011, 03:16 AM

Patch that occurred on March 7th near 2am has changed the way DoTs are working in a most terrible way.

Druid:Creeping Crud and Stinging swarm no longer stack as they are supposed to.

Necro: Ignite and boil no longer stack.

These are the only ones that I've seen/heard/found so far.

Please have this issue looked at and resolved as soon as possible.

Thank you

parlay1 · #2 03-07-2011, 03:16 AM

Stinging Swarm, Creeping Crud, Drones of Doom line of Druid Dot's are not stacking after the server came up after the patch.

I get "Your spell did not take hold"

bizzum · #3 03-07-2011, 03:25 AM

Correct me if I am wrong, but I only think one of each type of DoT can be cast on a mob. For druids one magic and one fire, shamans one poison and one disease.

Riffu · #4 03-07-2011, 03:52 AM

Morning there,

Just pulled a Grif in NK, it wouldnt let my magic series of DOTs stack (am a druid) and was stuck with the highest lvl variant - new patch? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

>your spell did not take hold< error in red

Just snagged a HG and same issue

I know this was how classic was... but...

Riff.

Bah duplicate - i didnt see initially but DOT stacking has been reported separately already.

parlay1 · #5 03-07-2011, 04:13 AM

no if it is a straight dot (doesn't change ac or debuff) then they always stack

Thetan · #6 03-07-2011, 05:11 AM

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Originally Posted by parlay1 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

no if it is a straight dot (doesn't change ac or debuff) then they always stack

What he said. And they should stack between players too if they aren't.

Droxx · #7 03-07-2011, 09:25 AM

I can't speak for necro dots, but I recall druids only being able to stack 1 dot of each spell line on a mob.

Uthgaard · #8 03-07-2011, 09:32 AM

Working as intended.

What you had before, where every dot stacked with any other dot, was the bug.

parlay1 · #9 03-07-2011, 04:17 PM

Hmm. Did they change it on live down the line then? I was just playing on live a year ago and the Stinging Swarm/drones lines stacked.

edit....I want to clarify, multiple people casting the same dot never stacked but me soloing casting all of them from that line they would always stack.

guineapig · #10 03-07-2011, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by parlay1 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

edit....I want to clarify, multiple people casting the same dot never stacked .

This. It's not the same thing casting the same exact spell by 2 different people as casting different levels of the same spell.