Can DOT crit? (ie firetrap's dot portion)

i want to build a crit firetrapper around 3dragons and wanna know if DOT can crit

if so i can have the flat fire crit to generate shock and the dot do burning

DOT itself can't crit. But crits, in your case, inflict higher burn damage = higher DOT.

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torturo wrote:

DOT itself can't crit. But crits, in your case, inflict higher burn damage = higher DOT.

Ya thats what i was aiming for, generate shocks to increase the DOT but ... if the flat fire part deal way more damage when it critburn, no point doing shocks

for this setup to be effective, you would imo have to drop crit and specialize in DoT(+burn+trap) damage and use flat portion (that would deal not so much damage) to shock+proliferate with Static blows

I think the point of three dragons is to to use small fire hits (where burn is close to useless) to shock. You would do the exact opposite by this, loosing high burn potencial from big crits to shock only

(and no, dots cant crit, because they dont hit at all. They work like negative life regen)

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Ludvator wrote:

(and no, dots cant crit, because they dont hit at all. They work like negative life regen)

that is exactly the ambiguious point about the whole thing because traps dont hit either, the trap itself rolls as a crit or not

Maybe I dont get what you mean, but any skill that can crit either crits or not, and any damage you deal (which is not DoT) actually "hits"

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Sexcalibure wrote:

i want to build a crit firetrapper around 3dragons and wanna know if DOT can crit

if so i can have the flat fire crit to generate shock and the dot do burning

Damage over time cannot crit. Your crit chance will help you shock things (with the initial explosion) but apart from that it won't help burn things (with Three Dragons, the only part of Fire Trap that can burn is the burning ground effect, which is a straight DOT, no hitting involved).