Do damage over time effects stack?

Question

For example, the monk ability Exploding Palm applies a 3-second DoT effect.

If I hit the same target with this rapidly, does the target gain multiple stacks of the effect that each wear off separately? Or do additional strikes just refresh the duration to 3 seconds?

What about two monks that both hit the same target with Exploding Palm?

Asked by dpatchery

Answer

As you can read from this guide there is a stacking of DOTS section about halfway down that states:

"Damage over time effects do not stack in Diablo 3. Everytime you use the same dot on the same target you do only reset the timer to the maximum duration. This does prevent extreme damage numbers from long time dots. The dot effects are balanced to make good damage over a longer time allowing you different actions in the mean time. They have the best damage to cast time ratio."

You can also find the same text here.

The exception would be DOTS from multiple players. No player can reset/remove your DOT. Everyone has their own DOT counters, so you can apply the same DOT to one enemy as long as it is coming from two different sources.

Answered by Emerica.

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