Does Rabies poison stack or refresh duration only?

Druid
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I did some testing and rabies does the same thick damage regardless of how many time you apply rabies on a target. Even when you have 0 sec CDR with the aspect.

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Does not stack, and the spread effect from Werewolves Companion is DoT only, not the initial hit damage. Druid melee, both Wolf (Poison) and Bear (Overpower) is abysmal, and unlikely to change.

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Druid isn’t allowed to take the spotlight away from Spiritborn.

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I plan on testing this again in PTR but if Aspect of Rabid bear doesnt let Rabies stack, its dead on arrival.

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I hate to break it to you, but the aspect doesn’t stack rabies. I tested this on PTR already. Rabies continues to be hot garbage alongside shred and lacerate.

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Tested literally 5 minutes ago too, saw it didnt stack - straight garbage. Like what is the actual purpose of this aspect… the poison buff for Andys I guess at best.

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Fleshrender Andy’s if I had to guess. Which would then make you a singer druid. I cruised through to 60 and into T1 and thought oh man shred feels great. Maybe I will pre-order the expansion.

Then I got to torment 2 and was snapped back to reality. The reality being that shred is still awful and not worh playing. I have three glyphs now at 46 (I can’t do pit much higher than 50 with shred) and I barely break 300k shred crits. I’m actually doing worse damage than I was in S5 currently.

Spirit, Werewolf, Territoral, and working on exploit (because vulnerable I guess).

Doomslide is great an all and still claps…but I want to play shred again. And this expansion didn’t improve it. Not even a little bit.

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Yeah its bad, I’ll try Shred more tomorrow once the vendor is in but its crazy, my grenade rogue can easily to 50+ at the moment with 0 armor and terrible gear (AND most of the grenade aspects dont work). I’ll likely have to go back to trying to boost the storm claw proc.

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Forgot one more thing. Wildhearts is awful now.

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It was awful before, at least now it’s simpler. The only question is: does the bonus stack with Bestial Rampage, or just increase to reach the cap faster? If the former, I’d call it decent now. If the latter… well I may just skip the season, lol.

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Absolutely no idea how people are testing and why people keep parroting it - Rabies stacks.

Here is an explanation on how poison works in general:

you apply 800 damage over 4s (8 ticks, for … easier math)
you hit them with 100 on the first tick. you have 700 left for 3.5s

you apply a new dot of 800 damage over 4s.
you now have 700+800 = 1500 damage over 4s
you hit them for 187.5. There is now 1312.5 left for the next 3.5s

you apply a new dot of 800 damage over 4s.
you now have 1312.5 + 800 = 2112.5 damage over 4s
you hit them for 264.0625. There is now 1848.4375 left for the next 3.5s

Here is a video showcasing rabies stacking with itself:
https://youtu.be/3Up6EhmwPgI

Here is a breakdown of the video’s numbers:
The first tick was 1500 the rest are 5626;
You can see 13 ticks of 5626 out of 20 expected ticks of 5626;
That leaves 7*5626 = 39382 damage left;
Redistributed to 20 expected ticks = 1969
If we restart the process - 5626 + 1969 = 7595 and we’re seeing 7616 ticks in the video

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The non-stacking might be related to the overall Shape Shifting bugs when using the perma form unique chest (old version). I am thrilled to see Rabies is working, hopefully that means passive skills for shape shifting have been fixed in 2.0 as well.

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I can’t stack it fast enough spamming maul and shred to look. The stacks fall off super quick. It’s annoying to stack now and falls of if you’re not constantly shifting every second.

Sorry - getting off OP topic. It does look like the aspect stacks. Need more testing for sure