DoTs in weapons. Stop doing it.

I know most of the pwi community needs helmets to go outside and does their damage calculations in crayon, but for some reason I keep having higher hopes for people and being let down. I saw about 5 people with DoTs in their weapons tonight. I've warned people about them being about as useful as average or flawless garnets but for the low-low price of...13 mil. Now, if you want to spend 72 times more than a flawless garnet that costs 180k for lower damage, go ahead and waste your money (more to imbue it, too). Instead, I'd thought I'd post damage calcs for people so you can flame anyone who has DoTs in their weapon.

Now, the higher the DD before the shard the more a DoT actually benefits but I'm posting here because sins have the highest DD of any class already and so if DoTs fail on a sin then they'd fail on anything.

Here is my build currently. Here.
I'm using it because he has pretty mediocre damage. I took the current shards out so we can play with it. Anyway, he has Rank 8 +7 with 483 dex. Not godly, Not G15 or Rank 9 but I figured a mediocre dph to do our damage calculations on. Rank 8 +7 does the same dph as Barrier Thorns between +10 and +11.

Dph average = (6228+9826)/2=8027 average before shards. Here is the damage calculation from pwpedia.

Daggers and ranged weapons:
attack multiplier = 1 + ( Dex / 150 ) + weapon mastery + physical attack buffs

Adding a garnet would be multiplied by weapon mastery, attack buffs (adds to base weapon attack), and dexterity.

New dph with a flawless is 8151 average for a gain of +124 phys attack.


Attack Levels
damage taken = damage delivered * ( 1 + ( attack level - defense level ) / 100 )

So basically, 1 attack level is a 1% increase in pve. 8027 x 1.01 = 8107 ave dph for a gain of 80 dph. So a DoT gives you 1/3 less increase then a flawless garnet in this example.



What about sparked damage?

Unsharded=16102 dph
Flawless Garnet=16351 dph (+249)
DoT=16263 dph (+161)
Average (G5) Garnet=16261 dph (159)

This only concerns DoTs in the weapon where garnets are a better option for increasing dps. In the armor sockets a DoT is still an option for increasing dps and would also help multiply the damage a garnet in the weapon adds. Point is, flame loudly and openly anyone stupid enough to DoT shard weapons.