multiple heat blood, darkness spells

[fraserd]

Once you cast heat blood and darkness on a mob is it worth casting them again before they wear off? I tend to hit mobs with heat blood, darkness then leech and then start over again. Is this a waste unless the previous spell has worn off?

[Xisbus]

Really no need in recasting unless it wears off.
Really the only one I worry about is darkness. If the fight has lasted to long I will cast darkness again only to keep them from chasing me down.

[Mixylplix]

Recasting is just burning mana, if you want to add another DOT then toss on something lower level for grins. Or nail then with a DD. I tend to limit to two dots and 1 DD (usually a tap as these are resisted less) per mob max. Casters shoudl not be the only people killing the mob. The melee guys need to have some fun too. :rolleyes:

[Dycacian]

As for do your fire based line of DOTS stack? the answer is no with ONE exception. Funeral Pyre stacks with EVERYTHING including pyro or any lower spell in that line. the same applies to all your dots. if you cast Dark plague then plague will not stick. cause dark plague is higher lvl.. if you cast plague first then dark plague will over write that because it is higher.

as for holding back in groups to make others do some of the work. I have to totally dissagree with this one. I am a necro. and I PRIDE myself on doing as much damage per fight as I possibly can. The key is to pace yourself and don't hold back too much. Keep enough mana to FD and try to keep some mana buffer for emergencies like when you need to chain nuke yourself oom to save your tank's life when the cleric drops.

In a group when using DOTS. Figure out the average length of the fights and choose your dots based on that. Don't use a long ass disease dot on a mob that is dead in 45 seconds.

I fight in BOT alot and fights there last just a bit shorter than my Blood of Thule, but I still stack BoT, Funeral Pyre, and Kiss of Saryn because when stacked I add over 700 damage per tick not counting my Pet, AND my DD I always add at the end of the fight. that is a normal kill. depending on the mob I will DOT less and DD more..

This same way of playing can be used all the way down to lvl 1. Don't hold back in a group just to be super mana efficient. You do that in soloing. but in groups you want to kill ASAP.. not as efficiently as possible. Necros have Lich for that. we gt the best mana regen in the game. and in a group if you have to sit out a fight to regain your mana then do it.. so that on the next 10 mobs you can put out some Major necro DPS.

And a tip.. Don't snare the second the mob get's in rage in a group. It is HUGE aggro. Wait till they are like 50-60% cause the only thing snare is really good for is to keep the mob from running away when they are dying. Use other spells for DPS. I don't ever use snare in BoT cause NOTHING in there runs away. if it did I would cast it every fight.