GMST Class Testing

I'm still confused on if it doesn't work under skill spamming or if its hidden as you suggested...



How would you know if the DoT was working?

Comp's DoT lasts for 10 seconds.
A F/P can stop using Paralyze during that duration and it will show a stacking DoT but
if they used the skill repeatedly, the DoT looks as though it was cancelled.

Shidoshi's idea of making the DoT display seperately from the used skill just makes it
easier in determing how effective it is.

I doubt that nexon will look into it though. =/

I have just sent a ticket (even though I'm not in Tespia) regarding this issue. I'm copying the text here if you want to use it.

 Ticket to nexon

In the current GMS (and in GMS Tespia from reports of other players) whenever you use a skill which causes damage over time (here after called DoT) (such as Fire Demon, Magic Composition fire/poison, poison breath, ice demon, etc) the DoT they do only starts about 1 second after the skill has been used. The problem with this is that, since the skills when spammed take less than one second to use, the DoT ends up never taking place.

This is specially a problem after the coming Big Bang patch since the Fire/Poison class will be heavily dependant on the damage brought from skills which give DoT (many more after BB: paralyze, poison breath, poison mist, magic composition, meteor shower and fire demon just for the f/p class). So when they train using paralyze they would end up not doing the 160% every second from paralyze's DoT.

My proposition of solution to this problem is: make it so the damage from Dot skills isn't based on the time the monster got hit by the original skill, that is, the DoT from paralyze wouldn't start 1 second after the skill was used on the monster.
Instead, make it so all DoT are dealt based on the ticks of the server clock (the client clock could also be used, though having things depending on the client is the base for abuses). That way whenever the monster the monster is hit with a DoT skill it would take damage every second regardless if the skill is being spammed or not.