Plague Doctors "Cause of Death" is pointless?

[TheeSpongeman]

I honestly see no merit to this move. It does 75 percent bleed,fire,acid damage that is currently stacked on an enemy..... Why wouldn't I want to keep that on the enemy so they take more damage instead? Is there a multiplier it doesn't mention? Cause I'd rather do 3 damage over 3 turns instead of.... 2 damage in one turn.

[Ignosius]

It deals the damage faster.

If the enemy has 3 blight per turn for 3 turns, but has 4 health left, then it would take two turns to die to blight. Cause of Death would kill it in one.

[MagnusGrey]

it's 100% upgraded. Either way, you use it only when it gets you a kill faster than the dot would.

[Null Winter]

The upgraded version also marks the target with a combo token, assuming the Doc's vorpal knife left anything other than a shredded corpse.

[TheeSpongeman]

Originally posted by Ignosius:

It deals the damage faster.

If the enemy has 3 blight per turn for 3 turns, but has 4 health left, then it would take two turns to die to blight. Cause of Death would kill it in one.

So it executes it all at once, if you have a 3 acid for 3 turns it would do 9 damage a fully upgraded skill? I thought it would only do that 3 damage for that turn. That makes a ton of more sense.

[Karlongkar]

it's for when you have full DOT team , pd + flag + hellion , if you only use pd as dot herself then it would be better to just throw another DOT in.

[Ignosius]

Originally posted by TheeSpongeman:

Originally posted by Ignosius:

It deals the damage faster.

If the enemy has 3 blight per turn for 3 turns, but has 4 health left, then it would take two turns to die to blight. Cause of Death would kill it in one.

So it executes it all at once, if you have a 3 acid for 3 turns it would do 9 damage a fully upgraded skill? I thought it would only do that 3 damage for that turn. That makes a ton of more sense.

Correct, using the upgraded skill would do 9 damage immediately and remove the blight.

[Mogwai]

I had a great synergy going with this skill.

My MAA got diseased but I had a trinket that applied blight to enemy when they hit my character. In denial boss with MMA tanking and dotting with noxious blast and poison dart so much blight accumulated that after a few rounds cause of death was nuking for over 40 damage non crit. Last two padlocks were two shots.

Quite niche but smallpox + trinket + cad was disgusting. Loved it.

[Son of Satan]

Originally posted by Mogwai:

I had a great synergy going with this skill.

My MAA got diseased but I had a trinket that applied blight to enemy when they hit my character. In denial boss with MMA tanking and dotting with noxious blast and poison dart so much blight accumulated that after a few rounds cause of death was nuking for over 40 damage non crit. Last two padlocks were two shots.

Quite niche but smallpox + trinket + cad was disgusting. Loved it.

According to patch notes, Cause of Death can not crit and is not affected by damage buffs :( So it is almost pointless now, almost everything with high enough health also has DB resist and you do not want to cleanse dots before the enemy hits DD.

[Overeagerdragon]

Because a marking GR + Flag build exists... 20 Damage/turn ? Yes pls....