I know what snapshotting is, but how do I utilize it effectively? I thought I understood it, but either I’m misunderstanding it or the WA I’m using is off.
My understanding is that you apply bleeds while you have a buff to damage (Tiger’s Fury or Bloodtalons). Does refreshing the DoT keep the damage bonus or is it that you want to refresh the DoT before you lose the buff?
Also, sometimes my WA will show 77% for the DoT and I have no idea why, and it doesn’t always show bonus damage when I apply DoTs. It was a pretty popular WA so I’m assuming it’s me not understanding it and not the WA.
I believe snapshotting is a thing of the past, but I could be wrong. Now I think your buffs amplify existing bleeds and when the buff falls off the existing bleeds weaken immediately.
Not for Tiger’s Fury and Bloodtalons, specifically.
You do not want to pre-refresh a buffed DoT. Ideally you refresh either late in the pandemic window (in between the last two ticks of the DoT) or right as the DoT falls off.
Just to touch on this and answer your question OP, if you refresh a DoT without a buff, the new DoT will override the old one.
So if you’ve got Tigers Fury up and apply Rake and Rip, and 10 seconds later put up a new Rake and Rip without Tigers Fury, the weaker unbuffed bleeds will now take over.
In the event of playing Sabertooth talent, if you can get a Rip up with Bloodtalons and TF, you can keep that buff going by simply refreshing the duration of Rip with Ferocious Bites. That would be the most optimal play
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Not the case with feral, if you put a bleed on with a buff (such as Tiger’s Fury) the empowered damage continues after the buff goes away.
Believe the tooltip also states this. Also, believe the same goes for stat amplifiers - if you put a rake on with +300 mastery it’ll have that benefit even after your proc wears off.
Does not go for stat amplifiers. Those are dynamic.
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I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to revive this topic because of something I just noticed: it appears that Savage Roar is treated as a stat amplifier. That’s at least what was just happening on the dummy I was testing on moments ago. Can anyone else confirm this? And this is also how Adaptive Swarm works, right?
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