Talk:Continuous Misery/@comment-70.15.158.98-20150316193620/@comment-26338967-20150505124847

I cannot confirm or deny this, however I find it unlikely that applying the same status effect -renews- the old one. Speaking from experience from several other games, and my playing of this one a lot, when you apply say, a Fire DoT, while it does stack, I'm unsure if it actually -renews- the old stacks.

I grieviously doubt it does that, because then status would be VERY useful, almost too much for anyone to deny it beyond even CC. Because then you could just use a weapon with high status and slash to stack the DoTs until it gets to the point it slaughters it on it's own. I play generally with high status chance weapons, and I've never had Slash ever do this much damage.

Again, I can't -confirm- it nessecarily, due to me having no viewable evidence, but from personal experience it doesn't. I see a bunch of 27s for example popping up, but never just one large tick every second. That is why status duration would come of 'use'. (Assuming of course increasing status' duration on slash or whatnot would be useful, which it probably isn't)