Are damage over time effects (DoTs) going to be useless in the next ESO update?

Since Damage over Time skills will be reworked in the next Elder Scrolls Online update, could it call their effectiveness into question?

By Andrew   •  Published 3 years ago

The planned changes to light and heavy attacks for the Lost Depths update have gotten lots of attention already in the ESO community, with quite a lot of disagreement on whether or not the changes are a good or a bad thing. However another aspect of these changes that isn't being talked about as much are the changes to damage over time effects, or DoTs, and how this might affect the PvE meta.

What is Changing with DoTs in ESO?

How Ground DoTs Might be Affected in Lost Depths

Andrew

Andrew

Published 3 years ago

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