DoT skills and attack speed

[DDuck]

I have assumed that DoT damage was based on the raw dps total of a character but found this:

I have heard that single target dot's without a cooldown use the "attack speed = cast time" approach, rather than scaling their damage with APS. The idea is that you can multi-dot.

Yep. From battle.net:

Edited by Shinzo#2304 on 6/1/12 11:19 AM (PDT) Just did a dirty quick test: unequipped weapon and rings: 2040 dps 1 attacks/sec 24 dot ticks @ 405 damage/tic equipped +14% ias rings: 2611 dps 1.28 attacks/sec 24 dot ticks @ 405 damage/tic IAS doesn't improve you dots at all, it just inflates your dps number. edit: if the application of haunt crits, then all tic's crit, else nothing crits Kind of a shame for those of us with 1H + mojo that use DoT. Does anyone know if this changed with 1.0.3 and if Locusts work the same as Haunt? It would seem that since Locusts automatically multi-DoTs it would put 1H setups at a disadvantage if it doesn't use the character dps total.

[Thrakhath]

This is definitely true for locust swarm/haunt, so I have been using slow 2-handers to make the most of them. I have an attack speed of 0.98.

I have heard contradictory things about DoT spells with cooldowns though (e.g. Grasp of the Dead).