Which does Era prefer? Burst Damage or Damage Over Time?

Coyote Starrk · Sep 2, 2019

Burst Damage

You are the kind of person who likes to kill as much as possible as quickly as possibly with as little effort as possible. You like to see big numbers and you wanna see how how big you can get them. You want to be able to press a single button and just watch everything on the screen die instantly.

Damage Over Time

For you its not about pressing a single button and watching everything die. Its about pressing ALL the buttons and watching everything die. You don't care about getting "big" numbers. You only care about how many numbers you can get on the screen at once. You wanna see your enemies melt under the sheer number of effects you have applied to them.

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Personally I am more of a DoTs guy myself. Burst damage is amazing in terms of getting stuff out of the way quickly, but can be a bit simple depending on the build. You just press a button or two and everything dies. Which is highly entertaining at first, but can get boring as time goes on. Its just not very engaging in most instances, but that also depends on the game. Damage Over Time however most often involves alot more knowledge and strategy in my experience. You have to combine effects and abilities in order to maximize your effectiveness. Which means you have to pay more attention to what you are fighting and you have to be more involved. And that to me is just a more fun way to play a video game in my opinion. I wanna be able to kill alot of stuff very quickly, but I also like to put in alot of effort in order to do it. Does that make sense?

So what say you Era? Burst Damage or DoT?

ThreepQuest64 · Sep 2, 2019

Just gimme a nuke!

Shelbyville Milhouse · Sep 2, 2019

Burst damage all day, every day.

DoT is for nerds who use debuffs.

Unkindled · Sep 2, 2019

Burst Damage always. Dots are good on some situations only but annoying if you have to keep doing it over and over for every enemy.

Belker · Sep 2, 2019

Dot. I think it's more satisfying seeing things crumble; there's something pleasingly inevitable about dot.

Not Spaceghost · Sep 2, 2019

So I voted for burst because I love that BLOW ALL COOL DOWNS MASH THE NUKE BUTTON INSTANT DEATH followed by like 3 min of wet noodling. It's a fun flow to me.

woodland · Sep 2, 2019

There's nothing better than playing venomancer on Dota and giving the other team DOT aids every 5 seconds with orb of venom and other items.

Honestly on the other side of things, shotgun morphling is one of the most fun builds ever, where you nuke other heroes with 1-2 shots too

kubev · Sep 2, 2019

I prefer damage over time, as it's nice to still deal damage while actively dodging and unable to attack.

EloKa · Sep 2, 2019

Have you seen my crit?

signal · Sep 2, 2019

Depends on the gaaammmmeeeeee.

For MMOs though, dot it up.

Mikebison · Sep 2, 2019

Both, obviously.

Apply your DoT, then burst away, refresh DoT.

Shiloh · Sep 2, 2019

Depends on the game, but usually DoTs.

In FFXIV definitely DoT. I'm not good enough to time my bursts for maximum DPS.

UnluckyKate · Sep 2, 2019

Mikebison said:
Both, obviously.

Apply your DoT, then burst away, refresh DoT.

For hl content yes.

For low trashs, nuke all day

JG_Lionheart · Sep 2, 2019

Burst baby. Pile on the Break Damage Cap passives. Spam Ultima. Spam Flare. Spam Bahamut.

SweetNicole · Sep 2, 2019

Are we talking PvP or PvE? PvP burst all the way, PvE dot all the way

saenima · Sep 2, 2019

DoT.

Love to get some poison/bleeding/fire/whatever going and laugh from afar :)

NSESN · Sep 2, 2019

Burst looks cooler

Coyote Starrk · Sep 2, 2019

kubev said:
I prefer damage over time, as it's nice to still deal damage while actively dodging and unable to attack.

Belker said:
Dot. I think it's more satisfying seeing things crumble; there's something pleasingly inevitable about dot.

signal said:
Depends on the gaaammmmeeeeee.

For MMOs though, dot it up.

saenima said:
DoT.

Love to get some poison/bleeding/fire/whatever going and laugh from afar :)

Fantastapotamus said:
Burst damage all day, every day.

DoT is for nerds who use debuffs.

KymTheSpud · Sep 2, 2019

DoT all the way, watching mobs slowly drop dead while i'm wandering towards my next victims is great

Gray clouds · Sep 2, 2019

Dots. Especially if they stack in intensity

Kareha · Sep 2, 2019

Depends if I was healing as Holy Paladin or Resto Druid.

artemis · Sep 2, 2019

Burst is my specialty. I usually finish under 10 seconds.

Stairmaster_ · Sep 2, 2019

Burst because I'm addicted to instant gratification

It's still really fun to set up DoT on longer boss fights, though.

Chaos2Frozen · Sep 2, 2019

Coyote Starrk · Sep 2, 2019

artemis said:
Burst is my specialty. I usually finish under 10 seconds.

Pancracio17 · Sep 2, 2019

Depends on the game, but burst damage is way more satisfying generally.

echoshifting · Sep 2, 2019

Bursts are too quick. You can't savor all of the little...numbers.

Phellps · Sep 2, 2019

Lemme tell you about my favorite status conditions in Pokémon games...

Chaos2Frozen · Sep 2, 2019

Wamb0wneD · Sep 2, 2019

DoTs are the equivalent to edging.

CaptainDreads · Sep 2, 2019

It's all about that burst. Nothing more satisfying than watching a health bar go from 100 - 0 in a single frame.

woodland said:
There's nothing better than playing venomancer on Dota and giving the other team DOT aids every 5 seconds with orb of venom and other items.

Honestly on the other side of things, shotgun morphling is one of the most fun builds ever, where you nuke other heroes with 1-2 shots too

C'maaaaaan, a veno DOT is nothing compared to a fully stacked PA (assuming that you're the PA of course!)

Ashrak · Sep 2, 2019

Completly depending on the game. In Borderlands 2, i was playing Zero with a Bloodshed-Build which is a classic Burst-Spec (dash through as many enemies as possible while you are cloaked). In World of Warcraft, i was an Affliction-Warlock, which is... yeah, DoT-based, mostly. And in Final Fantasy XIV, i play mostly Black Mage, which sounds and looks like a Burst Job, but is sustained Damage.

adz2ka · Sep 2, 2019

Back in vanilla WoW my first character was a warlock, and it was so satisfying applying lots of dots and other players running away knowing full well they will die no matter how much they run.

Generally these days though I have very little patience so it has to be burst damage.

snausages · Sep 2, 2019

DoT because burst damage is not worth the cast times. SMN will always be more fun than BLM.

Ashrak · Sep 2, 2019

snausages said:
DoT because burst damage is not worth the cast times. SMN will always be more fun than BLM.

With all these oGCDs that he can fit in, Summoner is way closer to Burst than Black Mage. But besides that..

Darkred means most satisfied. ;)

Mobyduck · Sep 2, 2019

I'm a DoT type of person when I play most strategy games. Silent poison build in Slay the Spire too good.

CaptainDreads said:
C'maaaaaan, a veno DOT is nothing compared to a fully stacked PA (assuming that you're the PA of course!)

As a squishy support player, I hate this gif >:(

Deleted member 14735 · Sep 2, 2019

DoTs. Give me poisons and toxins, I don't care if it's not optimal, I'm running it.

Deleted member 13645 · Sep 2, 2019

I think burst is what I lean towards just because you have more control over when you do damage. You can choose the best moments to do that damage due to that, where DoT you don't really have that control.

NoName999 · Sep 2, 2019

How about burst damage over time?!! Just flatout overkill!!!!

>:D

Limabean01 · Sep 2, 2019

Damage over time bc it makes me feel smart and strategic even though I never have a clue what I'm doing

PuppetMinion · Sep 2, 2019

Burst, why give the enemy the chance for a few last attacks?

Bjones · Sep 2, 2019

I don't know about those but I can tell you hate they whole, " whittle down to a special " burst" that's the only way to defeat an enemy system.

Kent · Sep 2, 2019

Highly situational and dependent on the game.

In MMOs, definitely damage-over-time, though having a little bit of burst available for trash mobs is important. In anything where I'm against another player, or a facsimile of a player, burst will always be king (though it's to the point where things like snipers - which combine burst, safety and distance - actively work to the detriment any competitive game they're in).

That said, I'm typically running between two and three grenade launchers at any given time in Destiny.

sph3re · Sep 2, 2019

DoT, because I can supplement it with other attacks that help deal more damage

Ryaaan14 · Sep 2, 2019

I'm not patient enough for dots

Coyote Starrk · Sep 2, 2019

KymTheSpud said:
DoT all the way, watching mobs slowly drop dead while i'm wandering towards my next victims is great

Obsolete said:
Dots. Especially if they stack in intensity

echoshifting said:
Bursts are too quick. You can't savor all of the little...numbers.

Phellps said:
Lemme tell you about my favorite status conditions in Pokémon games...

snausages said:
DoT because burst damage is not worth the cast times. SMN will always be more fun than BLM.

AshGerhardt said:
DoTs. Give me poisons and toxins, I don't care if it's not optimal, I'm running it.

Limabean01 said:
Damage over time bc it makes me feel smart and strategic even though I never have a clue what I'm doing

sph3re said:
DoT, because I can supplement it with other attacks that help deal more damage

Tuorom · Sep 2, 2019

Grim Dawn

Looks like a nightblade/occultist, prob chaos damage maybe vit idk.

I want to shotgun things into oblivion and be on my way. Woop woop power fantasy lets gooooooooooo

https://i.imgur.com/h1hMUsT.mp4

ChrisD · Sep 2, 2019

Fantastapotamus said:
Burst damage all day, every day.

DoT is for nerds who use debuffs.

But it's the buff->debuff->focus->NUKE that's the best of all!

sph3re · Sep 2, 2019

Coyote Starrk said:

Burst damage is for boys

DoT is for men

Coyote Starrk · Sep 2, 2019

sph3re said:
Burst damage is for boys

DoT is for men

lol exactly!

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