So I've been running around with MM + Conflagrate lately and recently decided to screw around with a new spender to replace meteor as I got a nice Tal chest yesterday allowing me to get the 4 piece without gimping my dps to much. It's been a lot of fun and I decided to switch meteor for Hydra with the blazing hydra rune, I know a lot of people go with mammoth hydra but i wanted to test out blazing and I'm noticing that blazing hydra seems to have it's own stacking conflag effect or that it may even contribute to the conflag from MM. I need to get some more testing done, maybe from some others in the community but I dropped some solo hydras out doing some rifts yesterday and i progressively saw the ticks getting higher.
I'm looking to see if anyone knows for sure if Hydras conflag effect is a separate stacking effect or if it stacks with mm's conflag. If it does I'm imagining a serpent striker to be the next item i shoot for in terms of upgrades/replacements.
Molten hydra does NOT apply a burning affect that stacks. It does damage over time to any monster standing on top of the fire. The moment the monster walks off the fire on the ground, the monster stops taking damage.
Blazing hydra DOES apply a burning affect that stacks and resets previous stacks every time it is reapplied just like conflag rune for Magic Missile. The two skills do not apply stacks to eachother, but they do both cause damage at the same time. There is a separate set of stacks for each skill.
That's pretty much what I figured, would be nice if they applied to each other could get some huge damage ramped up pretty quickly if that was the case. Still i'm imagining a serpent striker and 2 hydras throwing out there own dot to be pretty substantial if both the hydras damage stack with each other. I'll have to test it out if I get my hands on a serpent striker, maybe someone with one already can test it out to see.
I dont have a video of me testing, but heres one with me using serpents sparker with tasker and theo. i think i swap to blazing at certain mobs in this video.
Blazing hydra DOES apply a burning affect that stacks and resets previous stacks every time it is reapplied just like conflag rune for Magic Missile. The two skills do not apply stacks to eachother, but they do both cause damage at the same time. There is a separate set of stacks for each skill.
Not sure that's entirely true. The burn stacks but does not refresh the duration of previously applied burns.
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I'm looking to see if anyone knows for sure if Hydras conflag effect is a separate stacking effect or if it stacks with mm's conflag. If it does I'm imagining a serpent striker to be the next item i shoot for in terms of upgrades/replacements.
(edit: seems that mammoth hydras dmg increase after each tick and not actually applies a dot. my bad )
Blazing hydra DOES apply a burning affect that stacks and resets previous stacks every time it is reapplied just like conflag rune for Magic Missile. The two skills do not apply stacks to eachother, but they do both cause damage at the same time. There is a separate set of stacks for each skill.
http://www.twitch.tv/mrvertikal/c/4344551