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Been looking through the 60+ spell list for Rangers, and I can't seem to find a higher-level version of Immolate. Is there anything that stacks with the Conjuration DoT beyond level 44?

And while I'm on the subject, why the balls isn't Immolate affected by Alacrity focus effects?

Yeah... I was hoping for something that would stack with the magic-based DoTs, as I don't believe they stack with themselves

In the old days, they didn't stack, but today, dots of the same line as long as not the same name stick and stack, and even of the same name when cast by different players. The old way, made it very difficult to get any DPS out of dots by yourself, let alone with a group. Grouping with a druid pretty much negated any dot we Rangers could cast, since theirs were all higher level and would block ours.

Hope this helps some,

Yther Ore.

Our "regular" magic-based dots will stack with each other. These are the ones we get on the 1's and 6's (ie level 71, 76, 81, 86, etc.). Spells like Beetle Swarm, Scarab Swarm and the like.

There is another magic-based dot that was introduced to us in SoD called Swarm of Bees at level 83. This one does not stack with any higher/lower versions, acting the way you described by not landing and/or overwriting.

At 95, I have my swarm dot memmed 98% of the time, and have my highest and second highest other 2 dots memmed when I don't need those 2 spell slots for utility.

So basically, you can have your highest level dot and the one from the previous expansion and should have no problems landing them. It works this way with our nukes too, except for them it's because of spell types coded into the spells themselves.

Now at lower levels (before they gave us the same cookie cutter spells every 5 levels) the stacking issues may still be there. When I was using those spells I didn't have the benefit of extra spell slots, so I hardly ever used a lot of dots... but I do remember being in my 50's killing hill giants with root rotting, and stacking about 3 dots on them at once (as weak as my dots were, lol), and I didn't have any stacking issues then.

There are some +kick type 3 augs that you can purchase off of Zeb in the Void (SoD expansion) for chronos. Other than those I don't know of any +kick gear that people would specifically seek after.