The speed boost depends how many target(s) your fox shift hits. Each target will give a speed boost stack, up to 3 stacks. At max stacks, you will find your running speed increases significantly.
As for fox's cunning, rank 4 does reduce the cd by 3 seconds, but it is not that noticeable as a trapper anyway.
The speed boost depends how many target(s) your fox shift hits. Each target will give a speed boost stack, up to 3 stacks. At max stacks, you will find your running speed increases significantly.
As for fox's cunning, rank 4 does reduce the cd by 3 seconds, but it is not that noticeable as a trapper anyway.
i have always noticed the fox shift stacks/buffs.. just hard to tell the run speed change i guess, i noticed it does not show up on the character panel anywhere to even know how much it DOES change it....
i was basing my assumption that it did not work by looking at what the CD was on the description but this was AFTER i had already purchased it.. however i see on the wiki it says 15 seconds there too.. and that is what i had AFTER buying the 4th power point.. so i don't think it does lower it by 3 seconds (unless i am remembering wrong or misread it).. i agree though, it does not matter much as a trapper, though after patch BEFORE last.. i noticed my skills not being "ready" as quickly as they used to be sometimes,seems totally random.. lag does change it.. but other-times everything seems fine and lag free and i switch back to say melee have 6 seconds left, and quickly switch to range and back to melee (within a second) and boom the cooldowns are gone....???
As I remember, the default cd of buffs encounters (i.e Boar skin, Oak Skin, Fox's cunning) is around 18-19s based on your recovery. So at rank 4, if the cd is around 15s, it correctly reduces the cd by 3 seconds.
Last time I used rank 4 foxshift as a trapper, it reduced the cooldown on foxshift but it completely broke the feat that reduces all your other cooldowns.
The most notable times I see the fox's shift speeds is when I literally run through normal cc for dungeon hour. I'll hit the 3 bandits on the left of the first lantern and just fly down the hall to the 2nd. Usually I'm well ahead of the other two guys in that dungeon, all because of fox's shift. I haven't noticed its effects on cooldown, since it's usually the first melee attack I use to get into the group, and by the time I switch back to ranged, I've just shifted back out and cooldowns are already low or reset.
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As for fox's cunning, rank 4 does reduce the cd by 3 seconds, but it is not that noticeable as a trapper anyway.
i have always noticed the fox shift stacks/buffs.. just hard to tell the run speed change i guess, i noticed it does not show up on the character panel anywhere to even know how much it DOES change it....
i was basing my assumption that it did not work by looking at what the CD was on the description but this was AFTER i had already purchased it.. however i see on the wiki it says 15 seconds there too.. and that is what i had AFTER buying the 4th power point.. so i don't think it does lower it by 3 seconds (unless i am remembering wrong or misread it).. i agree though, it does not matter much as a trapper, though after patch BEFORE last.. i noticed my skills not being "ready" as quickly as they used to be sometimes,seems totally random.. lag does change it.. but other-times everything seems fine and lag free and i switch back to say melee have 6 seconds left, and quickly switch to range and back to melee (within a second) and boom the cooldowns are gone....???