Post by asakawa
ok so haste
did refresh and it was SO effective that they "fixed" it pretty quickly. what we're left with is crit and percentage modifiers that still DO refresh.
as mentioned this is why the NMIC is so effective but it also means that if you're clever you can stack some other buffs too.
tricks of the trade from a rogue (15% damage), pre-pot, focus magic and a high crit weapon (the FM can be put on a mage after the first 15 seconds of the fight and the weapon can be switched to a high haste one in combat) spring immediately to mind.
what this means is that there's an incredible pressure on aff locks to maintain
that corruption until the end of the fight and letting it drop (easy to do with haste procs + hero/lust) kills your output. it also means that the order that spells are cast at the beginning of the fight is very important since you want all buffs and debuffs in place before corruption is cast.
i was going to go on but the issues are explained fairly well in this quote from EJ's
DoTs and you thread:
Rolling Corruption Crits and Modifiers
When Corruption is refreshed, the crit rating is not updated to the actual crit rating of your character or the actual crit debuffs on the mob. Instead, the crit rating you had when you applied the first Corruption keeps "rolling" as long as you keep refreshing it. The same is true for percentual damage increases, namely Tricks of the Trade and Death's Embrace. This has lead to a rather unintuitive way of maximizing corruption damage: Pre-Pot (), cast SB and Haunt, cast UA or CoA while Haunt is in the air, activate , then apply Corruption. If you have 4pT10, try to prolong this sequence by filler spells to get that proc as well. When the boss hits 35%, reapply Corruption while using NMIC and a pot again. Ideally, get Tricks of the Trade on both occasions and bribe your RL to announce heroism at 35%. The damage difference is significant: The Corruption damage will rise by roughly 30%, increasing the total damage by more than 10%.
This trick has been mentioned in a blue post, saying it is actually NOT an abuse, but clever use of game mechanics.
Even if you don't want to use it, it is good to know that applying Corruption before your first shadow bolt hits is actually a bad idea. This is the reason for the starting sequence: Make sure (someone's) Shadow Bolt already hit the target when you apply Corruption.