Witch Doctor's Poison Dart DoT Does Not Stack

#1 - Feb. 15, 2012, 5:29 p.m.

The damage over time effect on the witch doctor's poison dart spell appears to just refresh the timer each time the skill hits a target instead of adding an additional 2 second DoT for each hit. This was tested by hitting the skeleton king 5 times and letting each one tick down and then comparing the damage to hitting the skeleton king 5 times as quickly as possible i.e. not just counting pop-up numbers. The differences were quite large, around 150 damage.

Vasadan

Quality Assurance

#10 - Feb. 15, 2012, 11:53 p.m.

Why have a tool-tip explicitly states 'does not stack' if things don't stack unless they say they stack? Doesn't make any sense to specify in one case but not in another no matter how it 'should' work or how 'things' work. Bola shot stacks by the way, just saying.

Bola Shot isn't a DoT. The only thing that is "stacking" is the 1 second cast time/animation of the bola wrapping around the enemy.

Poison Dart does not, and is currently intended to not, have a stacking debuff. It does not say anywhere in the tooltip that it stacks. Casting a second Poison Dart simply refreshes the spell, and that is intended.