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Cast times for all abilities and attacks?
Vorcil
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I'm looking for a comprehensive list of all cast times for different abilities to perfect my rotation;
I know the base cooldown on light attacks is 1second and for abilities is 1.3 seconds (for instant cast spells)
But knowing that isn't enough
Say I'm weaving funnel health;
light attack (instant cast, 1 second cooldown), funnel health (instant cast, 1.3 second cooldown),
How long does it take for the light attack to go off vs funnel health?
e.g., if I cast funnel health vs crushing shock, though they're both instant cast abilities, I seem to be able to weave better with crushing shock and worse with funnel health
leading me to believe there is some cast time for instant cast abilities...
I know the base cooldown on light attacks is 1second and for abilities is 1.3 seconds (for instant cast spells)
But knowing that isn't enough
Say I'm weaving funnel health;
light attack (instant cast, 1 second cooldown), funnel health (instant cast, 1.3 second cooldown),
How long does it take for the light attack to go off vs funnel health?
e.g., if I cast funnel health vs crushing shock, though they're both instant cast abilities, I seem to be able to weave better with crushing shock and worse with funnel health
leading me to believe there is some cast time for instant cast abilities...
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Reorx_Holybeard✭✭✭✭✭Where did you get the 1.3 secs for instant cast spells? I think there's a few specific things that affect ability cast time:- Actual cast time of the spell as shown in the tooltip.
- Global cooldown of all skills (closer to 0.9 secs I think from my testing)
- Buggy Skill Animations
- Weaving vs Chaining
- Lag/latency
We can ignore the last one and assume we're on a good and stable connection. For #2 even instant cast spells can't be chained faster than the global cooldown. When I was testing Rapid Strikes which has a 0.6 sec cast time I found the actual cast time when chaining them to be 0.9 secs over a minute of testing. I believe this is where LA weaving has a benefit as you can fit in a LA between consecutive casts of skills faster, or just as fast, as chaining the skill one after another.
For #3 there are some strange bugs regarding cast time for some skills. For example, the Templar's Dark Flare has a 1.1 sec cast time but the first cast can take 1.7 secs to animate fully and then subsequent casts take the mostly expected 1.1-1.3 sec each (assuming this hasn't been fixed recently as I tested this a while ago).Edited by Reorx_Holybeard on October 27, 2016 1:21PMReorx Holybeard -- NA/PC
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Vorcil✭✭✭✭Reorx_Holybeard wrote: »Where did you get the 1.3 secs for instant cast spells? I think there's a few specific things that affect ability cast time:
- Actual cast time of the spell as shown in the tooltip.
- Global cooldown of all skills (closer to 0.9 secs I think from my testing)
- Buggy Skill Animations
- Weaving vs Chaining
- Lag/latency
We can ignore the last one and assume we're on a good and stable connection. For #2 even instant cast spells can't be chained faster than the global cooldown. When I was testing Rapid Strikes which has a 0.6 sec cast time I found the actual cast time when chaining them to be 0.9 secs over a minute of testing. I believe this is where LA weaving has a benefit as you can fit in a LA between consecutive casts of skills faster, or just as fast, as chaining the skill one after another.
For #3 there are some strange bugs regarding cast time for some skills. For example, the Templar's Dark Flare has a 1.1 sec cast time but the first cast can take 1.7 secs to animate fully and then subsequent casts take the mostly expected 1.1-1.3 sec each (assuming this hasn't been fixed recently as I tested this a while ago).
ahhh;
I really wish we had attack dummies to practice on -.-0