Question about Elemental DOTs

[Tymon]

Are they even remotely viable in OP8 difficulty? I haven't really started doing OP8 until fairly recently, and while the strategy is generally exactly the same as no OP levels at all it seems like the enemies regenerate so fast that it renders DOTs worthless even when slagged. I had a scavenger literally covered in 601k burn numbers from my Hellfire and he was still GAINING health instead of losing it. Is it just basically not viable in OP8 or am I missing something?

[Palumtra]

Krieg can make a (fire) DOT build work with a Hellborn build as he can massively boost the burn damage not to mention he can stack fire dots pretty fast (and can heal of its damage), fleshy enemies can die off easily without slag, but in general you need to slag everything in UVHM.
Otherwise it maybe holds their regen back bit but thats it.

[z00t]

Enemy health regen is a big problem in the OP levels. Trying to kill them by DOT alone is not sensible. At best, the DOT will stop their shields from recharging which is something I suppose. Your scavenger has a lot of health and weird hit boxes to start with, so getting crits on them can be problematic.

[green]

DOTs are really not that good in OP8. Elemental weapons are good, but relying on the damage done by the status effects is not adviseable. Like Palumtra said, Krieg can pull it off cause he has a ton of fire skills. Cloud Kill is also good in OP8.

[HiTmAn]

dots are good to stop enemy health regen as well holding grog dots heal u a lot

[Tymon]

Thanks for all the responses, everyone. So, at least I know I'm not really doing anything wrong, it's just the health regen in OP8 is insane enough to bypass the DOT damage for the most part. Guess I can basically throw the hellfire in storage and use the ♥♥♥♥♥ instead since it tends to do far more direct damage.

[green]

Originally posted by Tymon:

Thanks for all the responses, everyone. So, at least I know I'm not really doing anything wrong, it's just the health regen in OP8 is insane enough to bypass the DOT damage for the most part. Guess I can basically throw the hellfire in storage and use the ♥♥♥♥♥ instead since it tends to do far more direct damage.

Yeah, OP8 health regen is quite insane. The Hellfire would still do damage, but it would just be the direct damage, and it'd only be effective against enemies weak to fire.

[Herr Sten]

The unofficial community patch makes DOTs actually useful in UVHM. Check it out.

[ReissyBoi]

Yeah it sucks because it seriously limits some character builds; using Maya’s Cataclysm tree or Gaige’s Shock skills aren’t that useful.

Krieg seems to suffer the most at OP levels, his melee tree doesn’t scale well at all and you can barely do any damage. His fire can work, but it kinda relies on the flame of the firehawk shield, and if you fight against fire resistant enemies then there’s nothing you can do. The only viable build for him seems to be an explosive bloodlust build