DOTs and preventing player from capturing point

Sorcs can do it too in Alderaan. I do it all the time. Side speeder + Sprint + Death Field. Then DoT them all and run in circles for a while. Refresh DoTs when you get low, die, speeder back, repeat.

It's funny, I made this exact thread about two weeks ago and was flamed. Good to see not everyone is a moron. DoTs shouldn't break capture channels, or at least initial application should but not the resultant tics. I'd argue that they shouldn't break OOC regen channels either, but that's a different topic.

There are no specs/classes which are ENTIRELY reliant on dots. All classes have some direct/instant damage abilities at their disposal.

I agree that with an already 8 second activation time DOTs should not prevent objective caping. Obviously the ticks should still do damage but when you consider factors like how the Alderaan speeders take players straight back to points or the defenders spawn so close to the doors on Voidstar these 15 second DOTs are imbalanced for the game type.

First of all I am pretty sure they are talking about Bleeds. An operative can spam bleed on every single person at a capture point the bleed lasts like 15seconds. An it has no CD. A bleed effect CANNOT be dispeled. So again what they are bringing up is not a L2P issue.

You need to L2play. You cannot Dispel,Cure,Cleanse a bleed. Any DoT that does "INTERNAL DAMAGE" can not be removed by casting a cleanse/cure or anything spell for that matter.

Its not wanting PvP dumbed down. Dots should not keep you in combat once you kill the person who put it on you. You should not be interrupted by damage when you arent in combat. I can maybe see still being setback.

Dumbing down is different than making things work like they should. It may seem like its dumbing down, because people have developed tactics around this bad game mechanic, but its not.

I am a Scoundrel and I do use Dots to help prevent capping. I think a few things need to be cleared up though.

First, can the Dots be cleansed or not? I always thought that they could by cleanses that cleanse physical effects. On the Scoundrel board, I have read that Dirty Fighting (DoT Branch) can be made ineffective by one cleanse. IMO, if they can not be cleansed, then I do think that needs to be adjusted so that they can be cleansed. If they can be cleansed, I do not see a major issue at all.

Second, do shields prevent you from being interrupted while capping? If so, is this not a similar issue but in reverse?

Third, Dots really are not that great in PvP as I am sure everyone knows. I rarely used Vital Shot until I learned that it prevents capping. I am pretty sure that I have had people cap while dotted, so I had thought that there were good counters to the tactic in place already.

I would prefer that viable counters are implemented to add more stratagy to WZs instead of just taking away this tactic.

Except that DOTS are how players deal with stealth classes when they vanish, and they also go OOC. How is removing this affect going to do anything but make stealth classes incredibly OP? The only other way to deal with vanish is spam AOE's and pray that you get lucky. Given that objectives can be capped in-stealth now, you really want to give them the ability to just vanish mid-fight (even with dots) and cap objectives at their whim?

As previously stated, there are skills that wipe DOTS and I can't comment on other classes, but the sorc/sage's is on an extremely short cool-down. With the abundance of sorc/sages they should be aware of the situation and move to wipe DOTS from people capping - it's part of the utility of the class. If people aren't doing this on your server, then teach them.

If this is implemented, i'm rolling an Operative.