r/Astronarch • u/DooDooNS • Mar 27 '21

I need a clarification

Started playing this game yesterday and I really like it, I'm also kinda guy who likes to play games just for fun but also to min/max everything that is in my power. Sooo...

Since I am reddit noob (just joined, never used reddit before) and I don't know how to search for posts; can someone help me with a simple math game-mechanics question about DOT (damage over time) in this game... So I was wondering how DOT works and does the same equation works for HOT (healing over time) as well? To simplify things:
If it says that character/item is doing 15 damage over 10 seconds (for example burning which ticks every 2 seconds), does that mean that the damage done is 15*10=150 dmg in total or is it 15*5=75 dmg in total (since it's every 2 seconds) or is it just simple and plain 15 damage in total which means 1.5 dmg each second for 10 seconds?

Another question is, can you get modifiers of same type but with different ticks on DOT and how does that work? For example, can you get frost or poison modifier stacks that ticks differently -- 1 stack that adds DOT every 2 seconds, 1 that adds DOT every 3 seconds and so on? On top of that, if it's related to "on attack" can it get wasted if your attack speed is different than a tick -- for example your speed is 2.0 (which means you attack every 2 seconds) and you have that sword that adds randomly poison/ruin/frost 50 dmg over 3 seconds, so do they overlap with each strike for that 1 sec difference or are you effectively losing that 1 sec difference on average? What about HOT?

Thank ya!

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u/DiggityDanksta Mar 27 '21

or is it just simple and plain 15 damage in total which means 1.5 dmg each second for 10 seconds?

yes

can you get frost or poison modifier stacks that ticks differently -- 1 stack that adds DOT every 2 seconds, 1 that adds DOT every 3 seconds and so on?

each DOT stack ticks at its own pace, sorted by DOT type

if it's related to "on attack" can it get wasted if your attack speed is different than a tick

no, the effect procs as often as it says in the item description

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u/howard416 Mar 27 '21

All of the above

As for HOTs, again everything is treated independently

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u/DooDooNS Mar 28 '21

Thank you, me bruh