Ive been leveling my rogue and have been playing assassination. After getting kingsbane and using it I still dont understand how it works.
The initial damage and dot are fine but its the second part that confuses me. Where it says I can increase its damage up to 1000% by applying my lethal poisons to the target afflicted by kingsbane.
What damage is exactly being increased? Kingsbane is on cd once I use it so its initial damage is not being increased. The dot that is on doesnt show increased damage the higher the % I get like say how ignite works for fire mages… Nor does it transfer into the next cast of kingsbane. So what am I supposed to be looking for when I cast it?
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To my knowledge, the Kingsbane DoT itself increases every time a lethal poison damages (or is applied to) the target.
So if you have multiple stacks of Envenom rolling while auto-attacking a Kingsbane target, the end of the Kingsbane DoT can get pretty high.
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The “additional x% nature damage over y seconds” part.
Every time your deadly poison would “apply” to that target, it increases the dot damage. This is why it’s important to have an envenom ready to go, because Envenom increases the chance for those lethal poisons to apply by an additional 30%
So the debuff on the target wont actually show the amount its doing over those few seconds then? As in if i just hit kingsbane and mouse over the debuff it will say for example, that it will do 2k damage every 2 seconds. But once I start increasing the damage, the debuff remains the same saying that its only doing 2k damage every 2 seconds and not like 3k, 4k,5k, etc.
Honestly im not sure if it reflects the increase when you mouse over the debuff or not. I just know it does increase damage lol
It’s the DOT. The DOT has a base damage per tick, and that is multiplied by the amount of stacks you have on the buff each time it ticks. Every time you apply a poison, your buff increases by a stack. Every time a tick of damage from the DOT happens, it is multiplied by whatever the bonus from the stacks of buff you have at that time.
This is why guides recommend you use vanish (with Master Assassin) after your second shiv during your kingsbane window – you get the 20% bonus crit chance when kingsbane is doing its beefiest damage (toward the end).
This may sound like a bunch of non-sense details. The take away is basically: Maximize how many poison applications you apply to your target affected by kingsbane. You do this by keeping your uptime on that target/keeping the buff from envenom active.
The other piece is the last half of your duration of Kingsbane is when the DOT is strongest, and that’s when you want to make sure your biggest damage buffs are definitely active (like Shiv).