DoT totems on kill effects inconsistency

Scorching ray totems proc on kill effects such as blood rage frenzy charges or Inquisitor's consecrated ground from Sanctify
Righteous fire totems don't proc any on kill effects

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Raye wrote:

SR totem often dissapears before the lingering DoT kills the enemies

i tested that and it's not the case, SR carpets the ground with consecrate before it times out

Raye's recollection of what Mark_GGG said is correct, but it was too complicated for them to code the fix dynamically (i.e. only when the Totem dies), so they added a band-aid patch so that all Damage over Time kills are awarded to the player regardless of source. Hence, most people just simplify the story and say "this is an old, well-known bug that is hard to fix."