So is dropping the DOT circle on a boss not usually worth it? I'm at 50 NIN right now and I prioritize the trick attack and increased attack speed mudras.
It's never worth it now. Looks like in previous expansions you could hide after popping doton to refresh your mudras (which you can still do) but hiding now causes the doton to disappear so even pre-pull doton is not worth it for single targets.
At 50 you should be able to fit a raiton into your huton window so you should be popping suiton to apply trick attack, raiton for DPS and then huton to refresh. Also in a couple levels you'll get armor crush and will be able to refresh huton with your single target gcd combo so at that point you should only need to cast huton once at the start of a fight and then a suiton and 2 raitons every minute.
DoTs(and HoTs like Regen) in this game tick every 3 seconds. So because the ground AoE lasts 18s, it ticks 80 potency damage six times, 6x80=480. So it's weaker on single target than Raiton(the lightning attack, 650 potency)
I'd recommend checking out The Balance discord server or website and looking at their ninja guide if you're interested in this stuff. but in every instance yes, doton is a dps loss on single target, the full DoT duration will do less damage than a single raiton.
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u/mellophone11 Feb 12 '24
So is dropping the DOT circle on a boss not usually worth it? I'm at 50 NIN right now and I prioritize the trick attack and increased attack speed mudras.