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Источник: http://www.mmo-champ...lipping-(4-0-6)
CLIPPING

Clipping used to be a big no-no because it meant you lost 20% or more of the value of your DoT and reduced your uptime as a result. This is no longer the case, and providing you know when to clip it can be a large dps increase.

The new mechanics are very simple. The current tick (not the dot) has a certain amount of time before it damages the target - this is just added to the end of the new dot. It works best if I give examples, so here you go:

Assume zero haste to make this easier

Clipping Corruption at 0s remaining = new 18s Corruption with the first tick occurring at 15s remaining.
Clipping Corruption at 1s remaining = new 19s Corruption with the first tick occurring at 18s remaining.
Clipping Corruption at 2s remaining = new 20s Corruption with the first tick occurring at 18s remaining.

You see how your Corruption grew in length to accommodate the remaining time? This ensures 100% uptime on your dots and provides a large dps increase over letting your dots fall off. The important part is that this only applies to ONE tick. Here's an example:

Clipping Corruption at 3s remaining = new 18s Corruption with the first tick occurring at 15s remaining.
Clipping Corruption at 4s remaining = new 19s Corruption with the first tick occurring at 18s remaining.
Clipping Corruption at 5s remaining = new 20s Corruption with the first tick occurring at 18s remaining.

We had 2 ticks remaining, but it only brought one back with it. This is to prevent people from casting Corruption 10 times for a 180 second DoT.

So the moral of the story is: You can clip your DoT's during the last tick and suffer zero dps loss. Any earlier and you're losing a lot of damage.