Another enchantment stacking question:
For enchantments like spontaneous combustion and poison aura that have a chance to do damage when an enemy approaches, if an enemy stays within the area of activation, how frequently is the chance re-rolled? Or is it only checked when initially coming into range?
For example, the poison aura damage is over 3 seconds, if it triggers, does it then recheck if the enemy is still in range after 3 seconds? What if it doesn't trigger on the first check, when does it recheck?
Spontaneous combustion does its damage over 1 second, so if the auras repeat, and they repeat when they run out, then level 6 spontaneous combustion has 10% chance of 30 damage every second, for an expected rate of 3 dps, while level 6 poison aura has 12% chance of 60 damage over 3 seconds, which would be 12% of 20 dps or 2.4 dps if it checked every 3 seconds (or if it checked every second unless already activated).
OTOH if it checks every second regardless of whether the enemy is already suffering, then you could 3 going at once and be averaging 12% of 60 dps or 7.2dps average. In that case poison aura would be better.
Last edited by eastwindismine; 30/12/11 10:55 AM.
