Dots no longer helpful in defense???????

SWTOR: Teamwork not required.

omg I literally cried laughing and almost crapped my pants in the process

Initial application of the dot will still interrupt the cast. It's the subsequent ticks that won't.

If one guy dotting 4 attackers and being back to dot them again thus solo winning the game isn't a reason enough for you then I guess we don't have anything to talk about.

I thought this was part of good play by the person dropping DOTs before he died. Now he just dies.

It just moves the advantage to the person with the 8 second CC.

it takes so little effort to stop an individual from planting the bomb already

Not only that, but if you allowed this...you would see everyone, spamming their dots and just running away, spamming dots and running away, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat...wow, that is incredibly skillful...NO...that is sooooooo stupid....AND IM A DOT MARAUDER

actually i don't think any class can remove them as fast as they can be applied. snipers have 2 aoe dot abilities and 1 single target without a CD.

This deserves its own post but I'll copy it here.

Originally Posted by lhhgbh
"Should bleeding prevent you from pushing buttons?"

This is a good question and I think this begs an answer.

Yes it might prevent you from being able to just walk over and push buttons. It might actually take you longer so instead of making DOT's prevent you from pushing the buttons it should take you 1.5 times as long so long as the DOT is active.

The max it would take you is 12 seconds. Then both sides get what they want. The DOT stays, but might not prevent you from capping.

I don't agree with DOT damage being treated differently than direct damage at all. However, the poster who suggested increasing the amount of time it takes with a cap of 12s with dots applied is a great idea if devs insist something must be done. It would prevent DOT specs from having to completely alter their rotations and thus gimp their dps output by allowing DOTs to affect capping just enough so they will be able to follow the normal rotation and interrupt stop the cap entirely once their dd filler spells come into rotation if left alone.

If not left alone it will allow the capper to eventually get the objective without being stopped indefinately. The timer would start on the first dot tick and should obviously be reset once the cap is interrupted by a direct damage ability. Channeled abilities should be considered direct damage for the purpose of interrupting caps since they require the user to maintain the spell for as long as it is active. Cudos to the one who suggested this imo.

Original thread from public test server forum is here:

http://www.swtor.com/community/showt...01#post3160401

no other competitive game lets a dead person guard an objective like this game did. pressing a button that dots someone should not prevent them from capping an objective if they won the fight. active defense is going to be needed and that makes pvp better.

Completely subjective opinion and there are opinions to the contrary with actual objective reasons why it is a bad change as implemented.

Healer cleanses 1 person. Problem solved. Oh, wait, people here just cry about stuff without learning classes/basic strategy. Why should I not be able to use DoT based my spec in that way? Also, who says the other player won the fight? Maybe I'm being chain CCed (you might be able to identify with that since you sound like one of the people who complains about that too) and they're capping when I'm still alive less than 5 feet away? Who says it's even a fight and not a gank fest?

putting up a dot and dying isn't a huge strategy or tactic. actively defending the objective is actual pvp. you had a cheese mechanic, adapt to real pvp.