Necro DoT Tap, healing, semi bugged.

[Snake]

Found out that when I cast multiple R2's on multiple monsters at once, it seems I wasn't getting all the healing off the dots that I should.

After some testing, I have found out, that if multiple 'Relic: Hand of Kaezul' are ticking on several targets, only 1 of them will actually heal me.

This is one guard:
[Wed Jul 19 22:35:16 2017] Your Relic: Hand of Kaezul did 741 damage to a decadent elven guard.
[Wed Jul 19 22:35:16 2017] Zake hit a decadent elven guard for 741 points of non-melee damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:35:16 2017] a decadent elven guard has healed you for 741 points of damage.

[Wed Jul 19 22:35:22 2017] Your Relic: Hand of Kaezul did 1482 damage to a decadent elven guard.
[Wed Jul 19 22:35:22 2017] Zake hit a decadent elven guard for 1482 points of non-melee damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:35:22 2017] a decadent elven guard has healed you for 1482 points of damage.

....

[Wed Jul 19 22:35:58 2017] Your Relic: Hand of Kaezul did 1482 damage to a decadent elven guard.
[Wed Jul 19 22:35:58 2017] Zake hit a decadent elven guard for 1482 points of non-melee damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:35:58 2017] a decadent elven guard has healed you for 1482 points of damage.

[Wed Jul 19 22:36:04 2017] Your Relic: Hand of Kaezul did 1482 damage to a decadent elven guard.
[Wed Jul 19 22:36:04 2017] Zake hit a decadent elven guard for 1482 points of non-melee damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:36:04 2017] You crush a decadent elven guard for 1482 points of damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:36:04 2017] You have slain a decadent elven guard!

Each tick heals, except the last one, I guess cause the mob dies from the DoT tick, and then tries to heal after, but can't, being dead. Thats not a big problem.
Also wierd that the game counts me crushing it... Oh well.




Two guards:
[Wed Jul 19 22:36:38 2017] Your Relic: Hand of Kaezul did 1482 damage to a decadent elven guard.
[Wed Jul 19 22:36:38 2017] Zake hit a decadent elven guard for 1482 points of non-melee damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:36:39 2017] Your Relic: Hand of Kaezul did 741 damage to a decadent elven guard.
[Wed Jul 19 22:36:39 2017] Zake hit a decadent elven guard for 741 points of non-melee damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:36:39 2017] a decadent elven guard has healed you for 741 points of damage.

[Wed Jul 19 22:36:44 2017] Your Relic: Hand of Kaezul did 741 damage to a decadent elven guard.
[Wed Jul 19 22:36:44 2017] Zake hit a decadent elven guard for 741 points of non-melee damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:36:45 2017] Your Relic: Hand of Kaezul did 741 damage to a decadent elven guard.
[Wed Jul 19 22:36:45 2017] Zake hit a decadent elven guard for 741 points of non-melee damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:36:45 2017] a decadent elven guard has healed you for 741 points of damage.

[Wed Jul 19 22:36:50 2017] Your Relic: Hand of Kaezul did 741 damage to a decadent elven guard.
[Wed Jul 19 22:36:50 2017] Zake hit a decadent elven guard for 741 points of non-melee damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:36:51 2017] Your Relic: Hand of Kaezul did 1482 damage to a decadent elven guard.
[Wed Jul 19 22:36:51 2017] Zake hit a decadent elven guard for 1482 points of non-melee damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:36:51 2017] a decadent elven guard has healed you for 1482 points of damage.

...

[Wed Jul 19 22:37:32 2017] Your Relic: Hand of Kaezul did 741 damage to a decadent elven guard.
[Wed Jul 19 22:37:32 2017] Zake hit a decadent elven guard for 741 points of non-melee damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:37:34 2017] Your Relic: Hand of Kaezul did 741 damage to a decadent elven guard.
[Wed Jul 19 22:37:34 2017] Zake hit a decadent elven guard for 741 points of non-melee damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:37:34 2017] You crush a decadent elven guard for 741 points of damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:37:34 2017] You have slain a decadent elven guard!

[Wed Jul 19 22:37:38 2017] Your Relic: Hand of Kaezul did 741 damage to a decadent elven guard.
[Wed Jul 19 22:37:38 2017] Zake hit a decadent elven guard for 741 points of non-melee damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:37:38 2017] a decadent elven guard has healed you for 741 points of damage.

...

[Wed Jul 19 22:37:56 2017] Your Relic: Hand of Kaezul did 1482 damage to a decadent elven guard.
[Wed Jul 19 22:37:56 2017] Zake hit a decadent elven guard for 1482 points of non-melee damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:37:56 2017] You crush a decadent elven guard for 1482 points of damage.
[Wed Jul 19 22:37:56 2017] You have slain a decadent elven guard!


When 2 or more only 1 dot will actually heal (gonna spare you all the spam, but I tested up to 5 targets).
Also wierd at 22:37:32 - 22:37:34 when 1st guard dies, there is actually 0 heals. I guess somehow the dien guard was the guard "nominated" to do the healing dot tick, but since it was dead, it couldn't heal.

 

[Grinkles]

This is apparently intentional.

In EverQuest, duration tap spells grant a recourse buff to the caster that will heal him each tick. See P99's Leach page, or ZAM's Leech page, both of which reference a recourse. (Incidentally, it looks like the misspelled spell name was fixed at some point on Live!) If a Necromancer were to cast a duration tap on 5 mobs, they'd all take the damage per tick, but he'd only have the one recourse buff on him because that's just the way buffs work; he might be shelling out, say, 500 damage per tick across 5 mobs while only being healed 100 per tick through the recourse buff.

Shards of Dalaya's duration taps were changed by @Zaela on 6/1/2010 so they'd no longer require a buff slot for the recourse according to these old patch notes, and this blurb indicates that the problem you bring up is intended:

Note that although there is no recourse, the caster of a lifetap over time (or their pet) can still only be affected by the healing portion of one lifetap over time at a time. On the other hand, if the currently-healing lifetap over time ends while another lifetap over time is running on another target, the remaining one should immediately take over healing.

Limiting the HP drain to a single instance doesn't make much sense from an in-universe perspective when your character has cast duration taps on multiple monsters, but I guess it's just a holdover from the original game that was kept in the name of "balance."

 

[Snake]

Ah right, I forgot why this mechanic was made, to make the healing scale with damage, and to not take up a buff slot, that was a really nice change.

Thanks for clarifying that Grinkles