I’ve noticed a lot that if a mob dies quickly after seed lands on it, the explosion doesn’t happen and the other mobs around don’t get corruption on them. This seems like a huge downside considering it’s a 2.5 second cast.
That’s because there’s a damage requirement for it to explode. If mobs are dying faster than you can apply the damage, it probably isn’t an appropriate time to use SoC.
You may ask “if i can’t use SoC for burst then what do i use?” and the answer is that’s why afflock sucks outside of raids.
I’m pretty sure the seed is also supposed to explode when the target dies reguardless of the damage. I’ve also noticed it’s taking longer to explode. Before 8.1.5 seed only took one corruption tick or a single agony stacking to 4 to reach the threshold, but after and now it’s taking multiple corruption ticks and almost the whole duration of a single fresh agony to pop. The tooltip reads it only takes ~4500 to explode amd that clearly isn’t the case.
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ive been saying that for a while now. my haunt prior to 8.1.5 would pop a seed instantly and now it takes haunt and multiple dot ticks.
I didn’t use it often, but generally if I was intending to I had PS ready to go also. PS+haunt will pretty much insta pop it still, at least on rasta which is the last time I used it.
I been popping it with Concentrated Flame. I like that instacast pop compared to Haunt especially how Haunt doesn’t always pop now
Honestly seed really just needs an overhaul. They have nerfed the ability so much.