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Is there still a way to chaincast AS?
mageor0l
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And with chaincast i mean more than 2 or maybe 3.
I ran a dungeon with a cleric a few minutes ago (who apperently knew everything about all classes, because he constantly criticized everyone for not playing their class right).
When i told him i couldn't permacast singularity anymore because the shield is bugged he started telling me i should use tab entangling (no sh*t sherlock?), calling me a terribad because i had no idea how to play my class.
So am i missing something here? With the shield bug it's basically
Singularity
Shield/force/icy (or whatever you like)
Singularity
-> Now the Shield is basically still on cooldown for ~8-10 more sec+ recast time.
You can buy yourself a few sec if you use steal time after the 2nd, but basically you have a timespan of somewhat around 5 sec with most of your powers on cooldown, a freaking lot of aggro and no AP to cast another singularity.
The shield bug totally breaks up the rhythm we used to permacast the AS.
Is there still a way to chaincast using other skills?
If not, how did you change your rotation? Wait something like 7sec between singularity 1 and 2 to get the shield back up (=slowing down the rotation; didn't have great success with this because of all the aggro i have after the first rotation)
Always use 2 CW?
I ran a dungeon with a cleric a few minutes ago (who apperently knew everything about all classes, because he constantly criticized everyone for not playing their class right).
When i told him i couldn't permacast singularity anymore because the shield is bugged he started telling me i should use tab entangling (no sh*t sherlock?), calling me a terribad because i had no idea how to play my class.
So am i missing something here? With the shield bug it's basically
Singularity
Shield/force/icy (or whatever you like)
Singularity
-> Now the Shield is basically still on cooldown for ~8-10 more sec+ recast time.
You can buy yourself a few sec if you use steal time after the 2nd, but basically you have a timespan of somewhat around 5 sec with most of your powers on cooldown, a freaking lot of aggro and no AP to cast another singularity.
The shield bug totally breaks up the rhythm we used to permacast the AS.
Is there still a way to chaincast using other skills?
If not, how did you change your rotation? Wait something like 7sec between singularity 1 and 2 to get the shield back up (=slowing down the rotation; didn't have great success with this because of all the aggro i have after the first rotation)
Always use 2 CW?
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Ready shield
AS
Pop shield as soon as blackhole expands,
steal time
Tabbed Entangled force
icy terrain
Recast AS
ready shield
repeat
Gives AP if there are Chill stacks already on the mobs or if it is slotted (for some strange reason) into Tab slot. Otherwise, it grants no AP, even if it lands.
So, if you can spam Icy Terrain or otherwise keep up Chills, e.g. CoI, it can give a decent amount of AP. But occasional ones will get you nowhere.
Well if you want to cast 1 singularity every 20 secs, that is perfectly possible with the new (always on) 13 sec cooldown on the shield. But i'm talking about "chaincasting" them (faster than every 20 sec)
Before the patch arcane mastery shortened the cooldown of the shield, making it something like 4-5 sec and not 13 (or maybe 6-7, didn't really pay attention, but it was alot less; it even did reset the cooldown to zero under certain circumstances)
You were able to chaincast singularities alot faster than now, because the shield was ready in like half of the time
I'm asking if there is a way/spellcombination to chaincast it like it could be done with the reduced cooldown shield.
Now that is a helpfull post here.
Would you enlighten my inferior mind how to chainchast the singularity AT THE SAME SPEED you could before the patch with the shield having almost double cooldown?
I'm not talking about "chaincasting" by slowing down the rotation for some seconds for the shield to be back up, making the singularity rotation alot slower.
Entangling Force on tab, which also procs the 4 piece bonus of high vizier, which is the set you should be using after the changes.
I look forward to you giving everyone the ~3mil AD so everyone can wear what you say everyone should be wearing.
Ready shield
AS
Steal time
Pop Shield
icy terrian
recast shield
cast AS
because the mobs are stunned from steal time when getting sucked up into the AS you gen more AP from popping shield.
Everyone says this like it's some sort of mind blowing revelation. The people asking this question are all pretty much using Entangling on Tab already. The bottom line is AP gen has been severely hampered by the shield cooldown bug. Combine that with the bugged/flawed AP gen of most other CW skills and no, you can't chain singularities as fast as you used to. With a perfect rotation and enough mobs you can come close, but the shield cooldown is a huge damper.
Thank you for this post.
Really, thank you. I'm really somewhat tired of guys saying "use tab entangling force". Like this isn't something every CW is doing already.
So there is no way to achieve the same speed like before the bug in situations where entangling force (combined with other skills, without the shield) doesn't generate enough AP?
That is totally false. It gives AP as long as you are in combat and makes no difference if you hit a mob or not you will still get AP from it
The thing is.. that set was 10-25k a per piece a couple of weeks ago, when everyone was theorycrafting on it.. Some people did the smart thing and snatched it all up.
lol yea I got an entire set for about 100k a week before the update. We really should stop putting value on items based on the current Bug list. You should always assume things eventually will be fixed. And with Cryptic, things will get fixed while other things that were working fine will get screwed up.