Game Mechanics: Bard AOE Dots

[ezri]

I was testing to see what increase McV's Brass instrument gave over the vendor one - and I found a strange bug.

I was using Largo's Binding, Angs' Screech and Demon's Discord to fear/kite a lowbie monster without an instrument and what I found out was that if I swapped to a brass instrument the damage would increase and decrease when I equipped and unequipped the brass instrument. This happened without me recasting Demon's Discord. If I cast Demon's Discord with an instrument it would stay at max effect for the duration regardless of equipped or non-equipped item.

So for timeline would be
1. Cast Demon's Discord
2. Wait for Server Tick: 17dmg
3. Equip McV's Brass
4. Wait for Server Tick: 39dmg
5. Unequip McV's Brass
6. Wait for Server Tick: 17dmg
7. Equip McV's Brass
8. Cast Demon's Discord
9. Wait for Server Tick: 39dmg
10. Unequip McV's Brass
11. Wait for Server Tick: 39dmg