Is Shadowblight classed as a damage over time effect?
The way it is worded its a little unclear As its technically applied for 2seconds but doesn’t do any damage unless enough hits register.
Shadowblight refers to two things:
a) a necromancer passive,
b) a two second debuff inflicted on enemies.
The two second debuff does no damage.
The shadowblight passive does two things:
a) applies the shadowblight debuff on shadow damage
b) adds an instance of damage to every 10th hit of shadow dmg on an enemy affected by the debuff. This is not a dot, it is direct damage, and can crit.
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Shadowblight is not technically a DoT, it can crit. Ironically crit chance and crit damage are highly desirable stats for shadow DoT builds due to this.
Alright so shadowblight can do Damage over time, but does not do damage overtime itself.
Essentially just a status effect with procs, and won’t benefit from + shadow dmg over time nor caged heart of creeping death.
No, Shadowblight cannot do Damage over time. It does damage only on every 10th hit on any target with the debuff on them, you don’t need to damage / hit the same target 10 times to activate the damage. It is technically and literally not a DoT at all, it is a debuff all along that deal no damage itself.
Very well put
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Technically and literally is pretty much the same thing lol. But anyway i assumed shadowblight was just an status effect but for damage calculations it might be treated as a dot seeing as both aspects for it work on a activation over time system aswell.