Future power idea -- mobile DoT

[srmalloy]

I was participating in the PI murder motel this morning, and had a thought about a potential power for a future powerset -- an anchored AoE DoT power. We already have anchored AoE debuffs, like you see in Radiation Emission -- Radiation Infection, Enervating Field, and Lingering Radiation -- where the debuff is tied to its target and stays with them if they run off (potentially aggroing lots of other mobs), but when you drop an AoE DoT, it stays at the ground position that you designate.

 

My suggestion for consideration for a future powerset is an anchored DoT AoE power like, say, Ice Storm or Blizzard, except that like the Radiation Emission anchored debuffs, they stay centered on your target regardless of its movement until the power expires. It would require some balancing -- the advantage of your target not being able to run out of the area of effect, contrasted against the disadvantage of them being able to run off and aggro other mobs (depending on whether they can reach another spawn before the DoT runs out). So I'm throwing this out as a hypothetical idea for a new type of AoE attack, so that other people can comment on it.

[biostem]

Doesn't enflame from sorcery kind of do that, only to a single target, (when used on an enemy)?