Damage over time skills

Vorccer - Raging Tide
Vorccer - Raging Tide Posts: 3 Arc User
edited October 2011 in Psychic
I've been playing PWI for about 5 months, and tested almost all classes to at least around lvl 4x. The exception being mystics (don't care for the fugly devil pet). I got a wizard to 70 but he's about to get retired because the psy is just a lot more fun to play. I like all the strategic possibilities. I think I've finally found "my" class.

On my wiz, at least at his level, I rarely had any use for damage over time skills. I have read that these skills generate less agro, probably because of the damage being so spread out. So should I level these skills to use on bosses? Or just do what I did on my wiz space out the regular attack skills?

I never really had much use for damage over time skills on my wiz, should I have the same mindset here?
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  • Appley - Lost City
    Appley - Lost City Posts: 21 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    I've always been fond of my dot's. b:chuckle Maybe cause I don't really like spacing my attacks that much..me gets bored then. b:avoid. So I use dot's as a way of spacing my direct attacks. Dot's also do full damage in white voodoo. But only time I use dot's in white voodoo is in pk. b:surrender

    You could always level torrent to 2 or 3 and see how you like it. Torrent is cheap so no worries there. b:chuckle
  • Andrewhall - Raging Tide
    Andrewhall - Raging Tide Posts: 34 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    using DOT skills is good way of avoiding less aggro on bosses., i only lvled them tho when i could get cheap demon books for them. There nt the best to use., but kinda fun for variation., and yet still do dmg.
  • Cacophony - Lost City
    Cacophony - Lost City Posts: 29 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    the DoTs do full damage through barb turtle, white voodoo, and even air to ground. I love flying above someone, double dotting and watching them die as I fly away b:pleased
  • Kagizyu - Heavens Tear
    Kagizyu - Heavens Tear Posts: 319 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    I believe DoT's are even less aggro than heal. I think i killed my cleric friend cuz i said I was gonna do Nub damage and when I was healed it went to her b:thanks
  • Vorccer - Raging Tide
    Vorccer - Raging Tide Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Cool, thanks guys b:victory
  • Yesmayo - Raging Tide
    Yesmayo - Raging Tide Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    I personally maxed out my DoTs and when i cast it i see nt much damage over time, it is pretty useless in PvP as well as it only takes like 200s and both of them together leaves the enemy with 75%. Then I don't know exactly how to use those moves, maybe soulfource has something to do with adding more damage over time but I don't see if it is worth using, in PvP anyway.

    Hope a pro psychic at high level can answer me on how effective these skills can be during PvP
  • BabaORiley - Dreamweaver
    BabaORiley - Dreamweaver Posts: 87 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Andrewhall - Raging Tide wrote: »
    using DOT skills is good way of avoiding less aggro on bosses., i only lvled them tho when i could get cheap demon books for them. There nt the best to use., but kinda fun for variation., and yet still do dmg.

    I agree with Andrewhall, Damage Over Time (DOTS) in PW are rather weak compared to DOTS in other MMOs. In the MMO I played before this, the DOTS could be devastating.

    They tend to be weak in PW, so I use them when I want to contribute to taking a boss down, but don't want to steal aggro, and I use them sometimes as a lead off attack.

    My Veno uses them quite a bit to avoid stealing the aggro from my pet.
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  • /Eclipse - Harshlands62
    /Eclipse - Harshlands62 Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Yesmayo - Raging Tide wrote: »
    I personally maxed out my DoTs and when i cast it i see nt much damage over time, it is pretty useless in PvP as well as it only takes like 200s and both of them together leaves the enemy with 75%. Then I don't know exactly how to use those moves, maybe soulfource has something to do with adding more damage over time but I don't see if it is worth using, in PvP anyway.

    Torrent and Sand Trap have a weapon damage addon, this means these skills get more powerfull with a better weapon. You should use them when you are in white voodoo and want to deal some damage to the enemy, since they are not affected by attack+defense levels. Other situation to use it would be a cata-barb in TW because this skills ignore turtle- and cleric-bubble damage reduction.

    Soulburn on the other hand is a very powerfull skill. With high soulforce your enemy cant do anything while soulburned but running away from you. Even if he uses a genie skill soulburn will tick and it cant be purified. It is the skill of choice when you need to kill a cata-cleric in TW.
  • Kaitica - Heavens Tear
    Kaitica - Heavens Tear Posts: 270 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    I like the nercoing in the psychic thread.

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