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Interesting, thanks for investigating this case of the missing DOT ticks. Hopefully the Devs will take notice/chime in. Submit as a bug if you discover the same thing!

 

As for the Sage Force-Master Alacrity set bonus, I received a reply to my ticket that said simply, "you were right to submit a bug report." Hopefully they're looking into it, although at this point I've moved on to the new 6-piece bonus.

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I tried to reproduce the glitch by activating Polarity Shift after applying DOTs.

 

It looks like any type of DOT will be affected: The critical factor is whether the DOT expires during the time that Polarity Shift is active.

 

For instance:

 

Test 1:

 

Applied Affliction, Creeping Terror and Demolish.

Activated Polarity Shift immediately after Demolish starts.

Demolish ends 6 seconds before the end of Polarity Shift; loses 2 ticks.

Affliction and Creeping Terror end 1 second after Polarity Shift; they lose no ticks.

 

Test 2:

 

Applied Affliction, Creeping Terror and Demolish.

Activated Polarity Shift half way through the Demolish DOT ticking.

Demolish ends 10 seconds before the end of Polarity Shift; loses 2 ticks.

Affliction and Creeping Terror end 5 seconds before the end of Polarity Shift; both lose 1 tick each.

 

Test 3:

 

Activated Polarity Shift first.

Applied Affliction, Creeping Terror and Demolish.

Demolish ends at the same time as Polarity Shift; loses no ticks.

Affliction and Creeping Terror end 8 seconds after Polarity Shift; they lose no ticks.

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Summary:

 

- If you apply your DoTs after activating Polarity Shift, the duration of the DoTs gets lowered and the DoT ticking speed gets increased.

- If you apply your DoTs before activating Polarity Shift, the duration of the DoTs gets lowered but the DoT ticking speed does not get increased.

 

Right?

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Summary:

 

- If you apply your DoTs after activating Polarity Shift, the duration of the DoTs gets lowered and the DoT ticking speed gets increased.

- If you apply your DoTs before activating Polarity Shift, the duration of the DoTs gets lowered but the DoT ticking speed does not get increased.

 

Right?

 

yes something like that

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Can confirm this is bugged for Lightning as well.

 

4 piece = 5% Alacrity

Polarity Shift = 20% Alacrity

 

Affliction first hit procs 4 piece - 7 hits (normal)

 

Affliction tick procs 4 piece - 6 hits

 

Affliction tick procs 4 piece + Polarity Shift - 5 hits

 

Affliction with Polarity Shift already up - 7 hits

 

Affliction with Polarity Shift used after - 5 hits

 

Affliction first 4 hits, then Polarity Shift - 5 hits

 

Affliction first 5 hits, then Polarity Shift - 5 hits (lolwat)

 

Crushing Darkness - 7 hits

 

Crushing Darkness with Polarity Shift used after - 6 hits

 

Resurgence - 4 hits

 

Resurgence with Polarity Shift used after - 3 hits

 

Appears to depend on how much Alacrity is gained during the dot, will do some more testing and see what I can come up with :eek:

Edited by KTap
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Summary:

 

- If you apply your DoTs after activating Polarity Shift, the duration of the DoTs gets lowered and the DoT ticking speed gets increased.

- If you apply your DoTs before activating Polarity Shift, the duration of the DoTs gets lowered but the DoT ticking speed does not get increased.

 

Right?

 

Edit: Partially.

 

As I showed with my 3 tests, what matters most is whether or not the DOT expires during Polarity Shift. For instance, see these 2 examples where I applied all 3 DOTs before activating Polarity Shift:

 

Test 1:

 

Applied Affliction, Creeping Terror and Demolish.

Activated Polarity Shift immediately after Demolish starts.

Demolish ends 6 seconds before the end of Polarity Shift; loses 2 ticks.

Affliction and Creeping Terror end 1 second after Polarity Shift; they lose no ticks.

 

Test 2:

 

Applied Affliction, Creeping Terror and Demolish.

Activated Polarity Shift half way through the Demolish DOT ticking.

Demolish ends 10 seconds before the end of Polarity Shift; loses 2 ticks.

Affliction and Creeping Terror end 5 seconds before the end of Polarity Shift; both lose 1 tick each.

 

Notice that Affliction and Creeping Terror were always activated before Polarity Shift, but they only lost ticks if they expired during the buff.

Edited by Gardimuer
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It works the other way around too, you can get 9 ticks off Vanquish and Mind Crush :p

 

Could you post a combat log of that? I'd be interested to see it. Demolish/Crushing Darkness (equivalent of Mind Crush) is usually supposed to do 1 big tick followed by 8 smaller ones.

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Could you post a combat log of that? I'd be interested to see it. Demolish/Crushing Darkness (equivalent of Mind Crush) is usually supposed to do 1 big tick followed by 8 smaller ones.

 

Why of course

 

02:59:01.913 You hit Warzone Training Dummy with Vanquish for 1.985 kinetic damage (1.985 threat)
02:59:02.612 You hit Warzone Training Dummy with Vanquish: Crushed (Vanquish) for 694 kinetic damage (694 threat)
02:59:03.432 You hit Warzone Training Dummy with Vanquish: Crushed (Vanquish) for 694 kinetic damage (694 threat)
02:59:04.214 You hit Warzone Training Dummy with Vanquish: Crushed (Vanquish) for 1.049* kinetic damage (1.049 threat)
02:59:04.945 You lose Unshakable effect
02:59:04.946 You lose Mental Alacrity effect
02:59:05.034 You hit Warzone Training Dummy with Vanquish: Crushed (Vanquish) for 694 kinetic damage (694 threat)
02:59:05.825 You hit Warzone Training Dummy with Vanquish: Crushed (Vanquish) for 1.049* kinetic damage (1.049 threat)
02:59:06.616 You hit Warzone Training Dummy with Vanquish: Crushed (Vanquish) for 694 kinetic damage (694 threat)
02:59:07.442 You hit Warzone Training Dummy with Vanquish: Crushed (Vanquish) for 694 kinetic damage (694 threat)
02:59:08.220 You hit Warzone Training Dummy with Vanquish: Crushed (Vanquish) for 689 kinetic damage (689 threat)
02:59:09.122 You hit Warzone Training Dummy with Vanquish: Crushed (Vanquish) for 689 kinetic damage (689 threat)

 

I cut out relic procs. Mental Alacrity was activated before combat started. Used warzone dummy because I didn't have any accuracy on me at the moment :p

Edited by ceazare
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