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A 'Fire Dot' is a Damage Over Time (DOT) attack. Targets that receive a fire dot are flagged as being On Fire. While a target is on fire, their affected HAM bar will take on damage and wounds at every 10 second tick cycle of the Fire Dot after the target has been set on fire. As an example, if a player is hit with a 100 damage Fire Dot, 10 seconds passes by and then the player takes 100 damage and then subsequently takes 100 in wounds. A Fire Dot will last until cured by the Extinguish Fire ability, Total Heal Self abilities, if the target swims into water, or its duration runs out. Each form of Fire Dot attack has a base chance (possibly a potency value) of applying the Fire Dot effect. This base chance is checked against the target's Fire Dot resistance to determine the ultimate percentage chance for the effect to land. Fire Resistance of the target also works to reduce the flame damage of the dot to the target by the listed value from skill modifiers and/or food bonuses.

Fire Dots cannot be used to kill or incapacitate a target as it will only bring the target down to 1 point of HAM at the least. Fire Dots can only take the target's ham bar down to its base value. For instance if a player's original mind bar stat is 1000 and has a 500 stat mind buff while on fire, then this will result in a ham pool that is 501/1500 with 999 wounds to the mind. Fire Dots will be removed from the player when they are killed. Fire dots can be applied to a target provided that they are from different sources. For example flame single 1 can be applied along with flame single 2, flame cone 1 and flame cone 2. Furthermore, the highest strength Fire Dot of the same effect overwrites lower strength Fire Dot if the target is already set on fire on that particular ham pool by a similar type of attack. If the fire dot damages are the same or higher then the fire dot tick cycle is reset. The higher damage dot will begin a new tick cycle using the higher damage.

Battle fatigue along with combat medic effectiveness skill modifiers are factors that work to affect Fire Dot damage.

Note: No known formula exists for calculating the chance of a Fire Dots to be applied to a target nor for the effects of fire resistance on these chances but there is probably a 5% base chance to apply a Fire Dot as well as a 5% chance to resist a Fire Dot attack, similar to the mechanics of other dots.

Fire Dot Sources

Fire Dot have a number of sources including:

• Special Attacks
• Inherent Weapon Features

Special Attacks

• Torso Shot
• Flame Single 1
• Flame Single 2
• Flame Cone 1
• Flame Cone 2

Inherent Weapon Features

Weapons with inherent Fire Dots will execute this effect on any target that is hit by the attacker. Weapons with inherent or potentially able to have Fire Dot effects include:

• Exceptional Weapons
• Legendary Weapons

Presumably special attacks that utilize weapons with inherent Fire Dot effects can be considered area of effect Fire Dots if the special utilizes an area of attack. The Fire Dot effect from the weapon would attempt to apply its effect individually on each target within the radius on the attack if the Fire Dot weapon has a radius attack or if an area of effect special is used with that given weapon. Weapons with inherent Fire Dot effects also have a potency value which makes a check against the defender's fire resist modifiers to determine the percentage chance of successfully applying the Fire Dot effect. Dots from weapons will only execute on the target if the player is certified to use the weapon. Each successful hit on a target consumes one dot usage from the weapon.

Some things to note:

• Fire Dots from different weapons that apply their dot to the same ham stat will not stack with one another unless the weapon used are of different damage types, meaning two kinetic damage type weapons with dots will not stack but a kinetic and energy based weapon dot will stack on the same HAM pool. - (This seems to be an exploit that allowed multiple dots to be stacked onto a target. For example a player using a health dot stun pistol then a health dot energy pistol to stack two health dots on a target)

Fire Dot Types

There are 2 types of Fire Dot attacks in SWG:

• Area of Effect Fire Dot
• Single target Fire Dot

Area of Effect Fire Dot

Cone Area fire dots are dots that are applied in an arching cone area emininating in front of the attacker and will hit all targets within a certain radius of the attacker. Presumably special attacks that utilize weapons with inherent Fire Dot effects can be considered area of effect Fire Dots if the special utilizes an area of attack. The Fire Dot effect from the weapon would attempt to apply its effect individually on all targets within the radius on the attack.

Cone Area Fire dot sources include:

• Flame Cone 1
• Flame Cone 2

Single Target Fire Dot

These attacks target a single target

• Torso Shot
• Flame Single 1
• Flame Single 2

Formulas

Weapon based fire dot damage

Weapon based Fire Dot damage is based solely off of the effectiveness value on the item (strength). Whatever the strength value that is listed on the item will be what the dot will inflict at each tick cycle.

Weapon based fire dots also cause wounds to the target which are scaled based on the battle fatigue on the target.

To calculate the amount of wounds generated at each tick of the dot, the following formula is used:

Fire Dot Strength * 0.02*(100+BF)/100

Torso Shot

Torso Shot special fire dot damage is based off of the initial damage dealt by the special attack and weapon. The fire dot produced from torso shot will begin a tick that is 60% of the initial damage.

Torso shot also causes wounds to the target which are scaled based on battle fatigue on the target. To calculate the amount of wounds generated at each tick of the dot, the following formula is used:

Damage * 0.02*(100+BF)/100

where damage is the initial damage value from the attack.

Commando Specials

The commando specials flame single 1, 2 and flame cone 1,2 generate a fire dot tick that produces damage that is 10% of the initial damage from the attack. Commando specials also cause wounds to the target which are scaled based on the battle fatigue on the target.

To calculate the amount of wounds generated at each tick of the dot, the following formula is used:

Damage * 0.02*(100+BF)/100

where damage is the initial damage value from the attack.

Battle Fatigue Generation

Fire dots also produce battle fatigue. No known formula exists for battle fatigue generation from fire dots but the bf generation from diseases is known which works under similar mechanics to fire dots so that will be used here:

base tick damage * .075

where base tick damage is the damage from the initial tick of the fire dot.

For an explanation of how a fire dot works with regard to high resists, see reference 1.

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