DoT efficiency

Seaborn

I have a 16 shaman and 24 druid, and the difference in DoTs is tremendous.

For the druid with mantle of winter and season winter:

Frostbite - 11 mana, 24dmg/tick, duration 1 min - 21.8 dmg/mana
Swarm of Gnats - 12 mana, 24dmg/mana, duration 1 min - 20 dmg/mana

Shaman DoTs:

Greater Ghostly Blight - 70 mana, 27dmg/tick (24 upfront), duration 30 secs - 2.3 dmg/mana
Sickness - 105 mana, 35dmg/tick, duration 1 min - 3.3 dmg/mana

These examples aren't 100% apples to apples because the classes don't get new dots at the exact same spell level, but we are talking an order of magnitude difference in damage per mana spent. Is this really intended? I haven't kept my ear to ground as much lately, so if this has been acknowledged elsewhere, just disregard.

Ensi

Seaborn I mean 8 levels is a huge difference - quite beyond apples to oranges 🙂

Are you sure about the DRU frosbite? I have a 24 DRU and can check later but 11mana for 24dmg per tick seems wrong.

SHM dots get much much stronger though....especially if you stack WIS.

Tomfool

Druid takes a nosedive come lvl 28 with somewhere around 3x less mana efficient.

Seaborn

Ensi

I should have included spell levels because yes, 8 levels is a lot. The comparison is not apples to oranges...

Frostbite is a lvl 24 dot and Swarm of Gnats is a lvl 16 spell. Both tick for 24 dmg and frostbite costs 11 mana and swarm costs 12 mana.

Sickness and Greater Ghostly Blight are both lvl 16 spells.

Velthorian

seems like shaman efficiency is nerfed across the board, as your supposed to make up for it with consume. It's bad design from the ground up. Consume should be net positive, not something required to just match druid.

CalBearGuy

Velthorian Your daily reminder that spells (dmg and efficiency) and melee abilities (dmg and efficiency) between classes will not be taking place until after all classes are overhauled.