It's about fooking time...

[Boo]

Cut-n-paste from EQ Caster Realm:

In the first announcement regarding DoT stacking last week one of the drawbacks mentioned was as follows:

"Unfortunately, the 15 effect limit is a totally different beast. It's one we'd like to tackle at some point, but not likely in the short term. Anything that PCs and NPCs have in common is a real bear, as I hope you can imagine."

Scott Hartsman followed this up recently with a breakthrough from the EQ Live Team:

...Each copy of a DoT takes up its own slot, due to duration, focus, and damage credit differences.

We definitely know the effect that would have on DoT casters on raids. (Between Rowyl and Jahaar and the boards -- I get it. I swear.

However, after some massive late night rewriting, we have an answer to the 15 slot limit for NPCs. We should be able to extend it out at least a little now.

We'll have to see how far we can take it, though - adding a pile of new slots to every NPC in the game could have some pretty bad side effects that we'll be monitoring and tuning on test...

This means that it will now not only be possible to stack multiple DoT spells on NPC's, but you will be able to do enough of them that it really will make a significant improvement to the damage output of DoT specializing classes such as Necromancers, Shamans and Druids.

Hot damn I can now KS boss mobs! Gunna start freshen up my l33t ninja skillz baby!!!

[Aslanna]

Wonder if this will allow Druid Epic to stack with Ensnare.