ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Damage and Heal over Time effects are described very inconsistently. For example, Human racial heal heals X per turn, over Y turns. Regeneration Infusion Heals Z HP over Y turns. Insidious Poison Deals X damage Each turn for Y Turns. Flameshock Deal Z damage over Y Turns.

It would be much clearer, and more informative if ALL hots and dots were formatted in the same way, in one of the two following ways

Damages/Heals for X amount Every turn for Y Turns ( Z Total )
Damages/Heals for Z over Y turns (Z Damage/healing per turn)

This way its clear at a glance, without any mental math How much you are going to get each turn, and what you are going to get in total, and makes comparing skills with hot/dot components a lot easier.

Which begs the question, what do people prefer? I personally like to see per-turn values, since a total is obfuscated by cleansing effects and duration reduction. If saves are being changed to reduce duration (hope I got that right), this definitely seems like the way to go.

It would also be nice if these talents would make it clear that the effects can't stack with other (regeneration, shielding, whatever) effects.

I prefer the "amount per turn, for this many turns" style.

TheRani wrote:I prefer the "amount per turn, for this many turns" style.

That, but with a paren showing the full amount. The first one Elkan displayed.

Elkan wrote: Damages/Heals for X amount Every turn for Y Turns ( Z Total )

This is definitely the preferred style for me.

TheRani wrote:I prefer the "amount per turn, for this many turns" style.

I like this form too. Having the total amount in parentheses wouldn't bother me whether it was included or not, since at least for healing I'll rarely see it -- I take too many hits for it to be a meaningful number.