Rolling Compounding DoT?
 

Sorry to bother everyone but ..well, here goes.

I am trying to see if a rolling, compouding DoT is possible. In a nutshell, in order to match another class, I suggested a DoT that stacks up based on a few variables (essentially every form of DD Lifetap would add 30% of said DD's damage to the DoT's total damage and reset duration to 18 sec).

Is this possible without MASSIVE recoding or will I have to come up with C++ resolution to make it a reality?

I will clarify anything if necessary, so please point out any missing/invalid points.

Thank you,
-Hate

The wiki doesn't stay up to date all the time but there are spell quests in code now. In eqemudir/quests/spells/[spell id].pl

EVENT_SPELL_EFFECT_CLIENT
EVENT_SPELL_EFFECT_NPC
EVENT_SPELL_EFFECT_BUFF_TIC_CLIENT
EVENT_SPELL_EFFECT_BUFF_TIC_NPC

It however may not be enough as is because tic count remaining isn't exported.

Couldn't you just keep track of the ticks based on a sub event in perl, and remove the damage from the spell itself? That way you could do the damage in perl, and keep the tics on the spell. I think that would work, no?

You could, and the effect is automatically removed if those script event exist, the script is run instead. No need to edit any spell with that.