Different? Channeling and casting time

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  • Aelric - Lost City
    Aelric - Lost City Posts: 1,031 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    So now the question is where to find good -chan gear :3 I'm sadly too low level to test this probably so others will have to. We have 5aps peepz now-a-days, so why not extremely fast/insta cast peepz???!
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  • Paramedic - Dreamweaver
    Paramedic - Dreamweaver Posts: 1,801 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »
    It takes time for the plume shot to travel across the screen and the mob to fall down but that is all just client side animation, as far as game mechanics are concerned the mob actually dies at the start of the animation.

    i estimate it by dmg log not by animation
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  • Lemuria - Harshlands
    Lemuria - Harshlands Posts: 114 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    ArchAngel - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    wow.. really? have never seen spells 'miss' before. b:puzzled
    That's because they don't. The poster you quoted has no idea what he's talking about. The spells accuracy is entirely independent of its animation. They can be resisted, but NEVER evaded.

    To be honest, I had originally thought casting time to be of little interest, since im already performing the attack, but I soon realised how much a difference it can make.

    Since you are unable to perform another attack or channel another ability while casting, spells with longer cast times lose efficiency when it comes to damage over time. This is most notable when using the wizard skill "Essential Sutra" where it's actually better to use your weaker, but faster casting spells like Divine Pyrogram, Stone Rain and Gush rather than your long casters like Sandstorm, to maximise the damage output during the few seconds it's active.

    Keep this in mind for other classes as well though. Don't want to be caught in a long-cast animation when your tank needs purify ASAP!
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  • Aelric - Lost City
    Aelric - Lost City Posts: 1,031 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Lemuria - Harshlands wrote: »
    Don't want to be caught in a long-cast animation when your tank needs purify ASAP!

    That ^ And me wants to PEW PEW more faster n' stuf on cleric :33
    Digging through pwdatabse I pretty much decided that getting a ton of -chan gear isn't really feasible until 9x when there is much more -chan gear available.
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