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10 мин назад был в склепе,получилось что разогнал похищение души до 3.5сек ,и встал вопрос обновлять доты или до конца бить похищением?)

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10 мин назад был в склепе,получилось что разогнал похищение души до 3.5сек ,и встал вопрос обновлять доты или до конца бить похищением?)

The proper use of Drain Soul


First of all, Drain Soul does not "recheck" the percentage of the target. This means that if you start casting it when the mob is at 26%, you won't get the 4x damage bonus for the whole casting time. If the mob heals itself after you applied drain soul, it WILL do 4x the damage for the whole casting time (have fun in the arena!). So start casting when the mob is definitely below 25%.

The main problem about Drain Soul is its channeling time: Within 15s (or whatever it is after your haste is applied), your dots will probably need a recast. Every dot has a higher dpct and does contribute to the damage of Drain Soul by the Talent "Soul Siphon".
The Shadow Embrace effect from Haunt and SB also improves Drain Soul's damage. This means that you have to reapply dots and haunt almost immediately when they fade off / don't have a CD left.
This forces you to clip your Drain Soul cast most of the time.

Now...
The wrong way is to not reapply the dots and haunt.
A bad way is to reapply all of them when they have all faded.
A good way is to just reapply dots and haunt as soon as there is one of them fading off.
A very professional way is to reapply dots and haunt immediately after the next Drain Soul tick after they faded off.
This is only possible with the help of addons showing you when the ticks will occur or if you have a very good feeling for the ticks. But even if you choose the moment of the clip randomly your results will be far better than without clipping.