Noob stream... with lots of deaths :P

[t0lkien]

Yes you are basically looking out and down at everything - the camera isn't following the character anymore, and doesn't turn with the character. Hard to explain, but you'll see it as soon as you use it ingame. You zoom in and out by holding down mouselook (right button) and pushing and pulling the mouse. You'll see.

The trick is to bind your movement keys (I use the arrow keys for kiting) to strafe *and* turn at the same time. That way you take advantage of the hitbox thing (strafing gives you more space to avoid being hit while still landing DoTs on the mobs because with a box the diagonal is longer than the length, if you get my meaning).

I tap to maintain a circle small enough to land the dot, but big enough to avoid being hit. The level 2 dot is much harder to land this way though. It's possible the 3rd person/mouse version you are using is more efficient until the level 18 DoT. But with the higher level DoT, it works beautifully, is very easy to see to what's happening and so is more efficient once you get the distances down. It's also very easy to do for long periods as it's not nearly as taxing as mouse strafing.

You *can* land the Level 2 DoT this way, it's just the timing has to be much more precise. You'll need a decent ping to do it I think - which I don't have being in Australia.