Question about Sutra combos

_Inferno - Sanctuary
_Inferno - Sanctuary Posts: 71 Arc User
edited February 2010 in Wizard
Hello fellow wizards b:bye

I have a problem with Essential Sutra. I can only get 3 skills off before it wears off. The skills i use are Glacial Snare, Sandstorm and Stone Rain, in that order. I've read that some wizards are able to get off 5 spells? Is this true? If yes, how? Is it a ping problem?

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  • Mrbungle - Lost City
    Mrbungle - Lost City Posts: 105 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    the delay matters...depends where you are (server lag)
    i can hardly get more than 3 spells off too
  • FireWizardEX - Dreamweaver
    FireWizardEX - Dreamweaver Posts: 463 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    _Inferno - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Hello fellow wizards b:bye

    I have a problem with Essential Sutra. I can only get 3 skills off before it wears off. The skills i use are Glacial Snare, Sandstorm and Stone Rain, in that order. I've read that some wizards are able to get off 5 spells? Is this true? If yes, how? Is it a ping problem?

    Thanks b:bye

    u are lv80 wtf? b:surrender

    look to cast time, sutra doesnt clean it b:bye
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  • Oz - Lost City
    Oz - Lost City Posts: 90 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    _Inferno - Sanctuary wrote: »
    ...The skills i use are Glacial Snare, Sandstorm and Stone Rain, in that order. ...

    The problem with your combo is that you chose the skills with the longest casting times.

    Sutra only makes the channelling time go to zero, the casting time is still the same as before. I would recommend that you rely on skills with the shortest possible casting time, that way you can easily get off 5 skills per sutra.
    I live in Europe = monster ping... still always get off 5, sometimes only 4.
    Glacial Snare or Sandstorm (your choice) should be put as last skill so the long cast doesnt affect sutra anymore

    I normally do:
    Celestial Pyrogram (long channel, but very short cast)
    Gush
    Pyrogram
    Celestial Pyrogram
    Sandstorm (or Snare)

    Works fine for me b:victory
  • FireWizardEX - Dreamweaver
    FireWizardEX - Dreamweaver Posts: 463 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    1 think i learn from spaming sutra all this time, is that it doesnt take the channel to 0 but to some ridiculous short time like 0.1sec, maybe -99% chan time, that explains how some skills are interrupt while in sutra and why we see bar filling up when it should appear as full if was 0chan
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  • Mumintroll - Heavens Tear
    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,393 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    FireWizardEX - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    1 think i learn from spaming sutra all this time, is that it doesnt take the channel to 0 but to some ridiculous short time like 0.1sec, maybe -99% chan time, that explains how some skills are interrupt while in sutra and why we see bar filling up when it should appear as full if was 0chan

    This true also. You can see it if you try killing world boss soul hunter he doesn't do any damage just he has slower channeling debuff. When you use sutra you will see channeling time very clearly. So sutra DOESN'T reduce channeling time to 0.
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  • PrettySammy - Sanctuary
    PrettySammy - Sanctuary Posts: 171 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    ok Ping is an issue, im from Europe so I settle for 4 spells, 5 only if im close enough for Will of the Phoenix.

    Also kinda depends in what your casting and what level your skills are at. Personally I do manual casting for sutra too, no macros. I found it helped a little but not alot.

    As for the rest, everyone else was bang on the mark.

    Good hunting
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