Dots are useless how are bm's any different?

twilighthikari

Ok, this is not what I think , I think dots are nice. But through reading all these guides these are some facts(or opinions) that I have found.
Wizard-Crown of flame level it and don't touch it ever again.
Barbarian-Garrote Useful in the early stages but keep this at level 1.
Venomancer-Blazing scarab useless
Cleric-Thunderball-ridiculous channeling time and dot useless
Archer-

http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=263481
Some people say spear blademasters are awesome with piercing winds and draw blood stack bleed,but archers have 3 DoTs and yet other archers say archers who use dots=fail.How are Blademasters w/ their stacked bleed any different?

SwiftZ - Lost City

basically in the simpilist answer ours r better


also spears can stack bleeds

teddiejohan

for BM..DoTs are never useless..
for archer its a fail cause that class suppose to take the least dmg and deliver the most, so i better replace it with other skill which blow large hp than a little chunk of hp.

Oldbear - Sanctuary

DoT's job here is add damage to the mob who's already under your attack and therefore kill it faster for instance if it's mixed mag/phys user then it helps to insure that mob will be down before it switch to second magic attack. I leveled our main bleed skill to LV10 then forgot all about it during LV55-LV70 but now took it out again and using it. It just seems to add the dot on the i

PS: DoT's always work on bosses against who stun and every other status related effect seem to fail.

Fleuri - Sanctuary

Archer bleeds do not stack.

b:sad

Axemanek - Heavens Tear

DoT's own imo
and my sympathy goes out to all Archers xD

Zhoelle - Sanctuary

If you aren't able to kill things as quickly as another class, then DOT skills help speed things up. I like the bleed with my BM, but with my Veno, the mob dies too fast for a bleed to be helpful. Same would be true for an Archer or Wizard.