Shammy spells with disease counters?

[KelticKope]

I am aware, I am a noob, lol. I can't seem to find any literature on Disease counters, can anyone explain how these work?

The disease line of dots seem to be very mana in-efficient at lower lvls. Does stacking Disease counters perhaps help in some way?

For example I noticed

Affliction (lvl 19 shaman) increases "disease counters" by 4

while

Walking Sleep (Lvl14) Increases "disease counters" by 6 in addition to slowing the enemy.


What, if any, are the potential benefits from stacking these "disease counters"?

[loramin]

When you use spells like Cure Disease or Abolish Disease they only remove a certain number of counters. So (using made up numbers) Cure Disease might only remove 2 counters, but Abolish Disease removes 6, so it would take two Cure Diseases to cure Affliction (4 counters) but only one Abolish Disease. Obviously this is only relevant if a mob casts a disease spell on you, (EvP) or when fighting other players (PvP); it's not so relevant in PvE because mobs don't cure themselves.

Hope that helps.

[KelticKope]

While not what I was hoping, that's exactly what I was looking for, I guess if I ever read the descriptions for the remove disease line I probably would've figured that out.

Thank you very much, I appreciate you taking the time to inform me.

Man it would've been nice if it boosted the damage on those disease dots... lol

[loramin]

Heh, it would be, but unfortunately the only way to increase DoT damage is with an appropriate focus item (ie. something that will never exist here on P99).