DoT attacks and Scourge

[Snarky]

How EXACTLY does DoT interact with Scourge and does it vary by attack type?  peudo pets treated different? (rains etc...)

[Carnifax]

Scourge is tied to ToHit rolls as far as I remember (Did I hit? Yes! Do I Scourge?)

 

DoTs like Gloom have one ToHit at the start and thus one Scourge check. It hits or it misses. It scourges or it doesn't. 

 

"Rains" do lots of individual ToHit+Scourge checks per tick per person in it, so each can hit or miss and each can scourge or not scourge. Other pseudo-pets might also benefit (Volt Sent for example should get a fresh "try" with each blast)

 

And since Chance to Scourge is based on current HP as you whittle their green bars away the "later" ticks have a slightly better chance to scourge (it's also why Rains can be useful vs PPs and the like. Some of them will get through and help whittle their remaining health away). 

Edited April 15 by Carnifax

[Uun]

3 hours ago, Carnifax said:

"Rains" do lots of individual ToHit+Scourge checks per tick per person in it, so each can hit or miss and each can scourge or not scourge. Other pseudo-pets might also benefit (Volt Sent for example should get a fresh "try" with each blast)

Exactly. Other powers without "rain" in the name that benefit include Whirlpool, Ice Storm, Blizzard, Storm Cell and Category Five.

[Carnifax]

1 hour ago, Uun said:

Exactly. Other powers without "rain" in the name that benefit include Whirlpool, Ice Storm, Blizzard, Storm Cell and Category Five.

I played a Storm / Marine to level 41 and still have no idea how Cat 5 works. I know it gets "bigger" somehow but it always seemed like it was doing bugger all 

 

Even throwing it into the parser the numbers sucked. 

[Uun]

1 hour ago, Carnifax said:

I played a Storm / Marine to level 41 and still have no idea how Cat 5 works. I know it gets "bigger" somehow but it always seemed like it was doing bugger all 

 

Even throwing it into the parser the numbers sucked. 

I've got a lvl 50 Storm/Storm corruptor. I've never parsed the logs (and I'm not sure all the damage shows up in the logs), but I find that if you use it in a confined location it will wipe out all the minions and lieutenants in a room over the course of its duration, so similar to most corruptor nukes. It also throws out some pretty hefty debuffs, so nobody is shooting back while it's going. I generally use it on top of Storm Cell along with Intensify (w/ Gaussian's proc) and/or Spirit Drain. 

 

Excluding the 4 lightning subpowers which have different chances to occur and target caps, the primary damage subpowers of Cat 5 are:

Category Five - 0.3337 cold every 0.2s (30s duration). 16 targets max. 30 ft radius.

Eye Wall (Nukenado Pulse) - 3.3366 smashing every 0.5s (25s duration). 16 targets max. 30 ft radius.

 

By comparison, this is what Blizzard does:

Blizzard - 1.8629 cold every 0.2s (15s duration). 16 targets max, 30 ft radius.