Scorpid Poison Rank 5Follow

Rank 5 lasts for 8 seconds, and rank 4 lasts for 10 seconds. This makes rank 4 far more desirable since the Scorpid will be able to keep that all-important first boosted stack on and active. Unless I remember wrong, it will also make the +spelldamage (a portion of your own Ranged Attack Power) work differently, adding even more DPS for Rank 4 than Rank 5. The spelldamage part may not be entirely true though, I just skimmed through that section of the Scorpid Poison explanation.

I suggest rooting up the thread that concerns Scorpids and their Poisons. Several math Hunters sat down and nailed down these facts to a single thread, very worth the read.

I have all the Beastwar season's on DVD, they're my favorite transformer series.

On the scorpid topic I've been meaning to pick one up myself, they sound interesting.

Yeah, Scorpid Poison 5 has a shorter duration than 4, so it isn't as likely to be stacked on the target.

Keep in mind that (reportedly) the ability to scale scorpid poison up in damage a ton from attack power has been reduced on the test realm, like lightning breath before it.

Correct, tested it yesterday.
I copied my current char and fought some mobs with my scorpid pet.
Normally when fighting mobs solo my scorpid's poison attack does ~55 damage per stack. On PTR scorpid poison did ~17 damage per stack against the same opponents with same equip and buffs.
Thus I'll dump my scorpid once 2.2 goes live. No charge and ****** damage, time for my ravager.

Just as an fyi Scorponok was in the original transformers, as a giant scorpian, way back in the 80's, long before beast wars was ever out.

Robots in disguise

Linky to his history according to wiki..


I'm such a nerd

Thanks, that's who I was thinking of. I didn't think I'd ever watched Beast Wars, so that answers that. I need to look into buying all of the seasons on DVD. Great memories.

It couldn't tick for _that_ much, but it could tick for obscene amounts. Still, their nerf was to make it not scale at _all_, which means Scorpids are one of the worst pets in the game now rather than one of the best. It would have made far more sense to make it stack with your attack power at a much reduced rate (such as that five stacks would recieve the same bonus as you used to get out of, say, two stacks) or just make it only require one application and balance it that way.

Those obscene numbers usually use additional tricks it is not just RAP. A raiding hunter might get somewhere near and perhaps slightly above 3k RAP raid buffed. Far more is not possible with current gear.
However the nice thing about DOTs is that the damage is determined by the 1st tick of the poison as long as the same stack is active. The next applications of poison only multiply that damage. So when you can start with a very high tick and keep the stack up it will tick for very high damage. Thus you can start the poison stack with activated trinkets.
Warlocks curse of elements also works on scorpid poison. Even shamans spell damage totem will add damage. If you count those things together a single poison tick can do 100-130 damage. A full stack will than tick for 500-650 damage every 2 seconds which makes scorpids quite overpowered at the moment. If the boss has certain phases during which he takes additional damage and you can start the stack during this phase the numbers can get even higher (but I have only read about that, never tried it actually).
However I do not see the need to nerf that this drastically. Simply reducing the amount of spell damage a pet gets from hunter's rap by factor two or three and things would be fine.