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Description Template (Game Messages) Related Tags 25% This document has been partially completed. Mechanics This document is about game mechanics. Game Mechanics A 'Fire Dot' is a Damage Over Time (DOT) attack. 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. Only one type of disease can be placed on a HAM pool or secondary stat, regardless of the source. Furthermore, the highest strength disease overwrites lower strength disease if the target is already diseased on that particular ham pool. 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 Disease There are two types of area of effect firedots; Spherical Firedots and Cone Area Fire Dots. Spherical dots are attacks that will hit all targets within a certain radius of the attacker, where the radius is dependent on the special used and area of effect radius component on the weapon used (if the attack is done with a weapon that has an aoe component to it). 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 dots are dots that are applied in an arching cone area emininating in front of the attacker AOE Fire Dots sources include: AOE specials inflicting disease with weapon on targets within radius Cone Area Fire dot sources include: Flame Cone 1 Flame Cone 2 Cone Area attacks or specials inflicting firedot using fire dot weapon on targets Single Target Fire Dot These attacks target a single target Torso Shot Flame Single 1 Flame Single 2 Default attacks or specials inflicting firedot using fire dot weapon on targets Formulas Disease damage is based around three things: The disease effectiveness (or strength) The target's current battle fatigue The combat medic's Combat Medicine Effectiveness modifier To calculate disease damage, the following formula is used: Real tick damage = ((disease effectiveness) * (1 + (CM effectiveness) / 100)) * (1 + (target battle fatigue / 100)) Disease effectiveness includes the disease strength stat on a creature's attack, the combat medic's disease packs or the strength value on dot weapons. Disease sources that dont use CM effectiveness modifier would use 0 for this part of the formula. As diseases run their course on a target, they will accumulate battle fatigue. The rate at which diseases generate battle fatigue on the target uses the following formula: Battle fatigue incurred = Real Tick Damage * .075 Source References Source Source in Context