Talk:Saryn (Warframe)/@comment-65.25.100.112-20141123025914/@comment-24613667-20141207010121

Negative duration recudes the number of ticks, but the damage is then divided up over the new number of ticks to equal the same total damage in a shorter amount of time (hence why most people build her as a nuker).

Ancient's auras do seem a bit beefier now and the new Mutalist Moa armor makes everything insanely tanky, so they're probably to blame.