Talk:Direct damage

I'd have to agree that the effects of Immolate would be called DD-then-DoT based on the dialects I've been exposed to. (I admit to some uncertainty about DoT in Guild Wars since GW has two types of DoT: repeated damage over time, and health degenerations, and sometimes both at once from the same spell!) However, depending on how word usage varies between other games and this one, I'd consider Flare to be a Bolt rather than Direct Damage since the Flare takes time to travel to its target and can miss and/or be dodged. At least this is how the damage spells were divided in Dark Age of Camelot, and I got the impression there that the terminology was imported from Everquest and had also made its way to Asheron's Call. Anyone know what term if any the Guild Wars devs use for the dodgeable ballistic projectiles including flares, staff and wand zaps, Glint's breath, arrows, etc? Saucepan 10:33, 15 Jul 2005 (EST)