Oddity about Ada Dot
So in doing RLH so much these past weeks I noticed something odd. When fighting Busker (the Spirit of Rock rip-off) whenever he would use his Phys Guard I would see "1" pop up every so often. When he used Magic Guard I would see an occassional fairly large number. Sometimes it would just be 1 number but other times it would be two or even three lines.
Long story short I think it is the DOT from ADA. I think it is registering as physical damage instead of magical like FB. I was hoping some of the stronger BaMs could test at other bosses (I don't fund my BaM so she can't even solo Zak and I don't feel like wasting an EoF just for this and most weaker bosses don't use those skills) and wanted to know if anyone else had noticed this. It "could" just be a graphical glitch but I'm not really sure.
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[quote=andylong1014]I believe I have come up with a theory for this
[b]Example[/b]
[b]10 second mark[/b]
DoT happens and you are doing 20k per DoT
[b]15 second mark[/b]
Magic guard is casted and your DoT still does 20k
[b]25 second mark[/b]
Your first DoT is over and your new one is casted and does one dmg
Since DoT lasts lets say 10 seconds, the first time you casted your DoT, Buster didn't have magic guard so the DoT isn't affected. 5 seconds later DoT gets casted but your DoT still does 20k. Since the DoT started doing 20k, it stays that way until it ends. When your DoT gets casted again, Buster has magic guard so your DoT only does one dmg then.
I think that this is what happen o.o[/quote]
. All of this is pretty much accurate except one thing : The skill boss casts is referred to as Magic cancel and not magic guard. Magic guard is that skill used by other mages cuz they're too squishy in the HP department ;D
I've had this happen too >.> In Red Leaf High, Busker (the imitation of Spirit of the Rock) used magic cancel but among all the 1's I see an occasional high number
Using flame gears on my bishop, I saw that when bosses take the magical DOT dmg and then they cancel magic attacks, the DOT it's still the same for the time it lasts (8 secs), then, when still in cancel magic it hits them again the dmg will be 1, and let's say that they have cancel magic on and you hit them but the cancel magic effect wears off, you can hit them and do the normal dmg, but the DOT will be 1 until it passes the 8 seconds that it lasts... idk if my grammar it's understandable because english is not my first language and i get a hard time trying to explain complex stuff... so yeah.
Yea, from what I'm seeing, the DOT stays behind for those 8 seconds even if cancel is on.
@nivek: It's not that I cannot complete them, I just find them annoying... I usually finish the quests (all 3 of them) in about half an hour to an hour... Most of the time, I just can't be bothered to actually do them
I believe its coming up magical , Because if magical cancel casts and I attack my dot damage will do 1's and when attacking with physical cancel up my dot continues as usual. If you watch my video that I posted and watch closely and watch when physical cancel comes up, My dot will continue as normal.
I think I'll finally get around to doing those annoying pre-quests then see what happens when I solo zak... interesting theory though
[quote=Mystelteinn]Refer to my topic [url=http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2551666]here[/url]
People said that it has something to do about using the DoTs before the boss actually casts magic cancel, but I don't remember it being that complicated.
I'ma go try it out on Czak or whatnot later to see if any of this makes sense.[/quote]
Yeah I never check the general mage section normally lol.
Refer to my topic [url=http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2551666]here[/url]
People said that it has something to do about using the DoTs before the boss actually casts magic cancel, but I don't remember it being that complicated.
I'ma go try it out on Czak or whatnot later to see if any of this makes sense.