Haste and You... A guide to the misinformed.

[RAIST]

So I put on haste gear and I don't notice my casting going faster. What am I doing wrong? Is this a bug?????

Haste doesn't affect casting time...that's Fast Cast traits. Haste reduces delays between actions, not the speed of the action itself, so it reduces the time between things like when you swing your weapon again and the cool down timer between recasting the same spell.

Raist

[Greatguardian]

I'm being very sincere when I say this, so bring on the tough love.
I've been playing this game since the release of the NA ps2 release (off and on). In times past I use to gear swap, but as I got older and took on more responsibilities, this game turned more into a leisure thing and I do what the capacity of my brain will let me. :P
So I don't gear swap anymore, I sorta try to find that happy medium, and i have varying sets of gear I use for one job based off a situation but I don't change them that much to count as gear swapping. And I'm in no way in disagreement over fact. Math doesn't lie. But does that make me a bad player? I'd like to think skill vs gear can find a happy medium.
Educate me. Thanks

To be honest it's really not that bad to set up basic macros, and the Improvement : Effort ratio is enormous. It may take 2 minutes to change your WS macro to include going from Walahra Turban to Varangian Helm and back, and each time you WS after that macro is set up you are reaping benefits from it. Obviously that's only a single slot being changed, but even just that one slot makes a huge difference in your damage output. Doing that even for just a couple slots is tons better than not doing it at all, and really isn't much work.

[Avidon]

Yeah you're right man. lol. I'm being such a lazy ass. I guess if I'm paying for a game and invest time into it, no matter how tired and shot my brain is at the end of the day, I should try to make the best of it. And it'll only improve myself as a player.
/sigh better start working on some builds. And as for my pld, Haste is a god sent because as for the moment we wont be used for anything but what little Dps we can offer. (I say that realizing I have no grounds on which to back that claim up.)
Thanks again GG.

[Harukusan]

hehe.. it's more that they don't want me to do it b/c I become too much an mp sponge. /WAR and /SAM can make so many jobs such hate mongers now. I usally have the gear to hold my own...took on 5 mandies the other night and killed them all after the "tank" died... but... meh. Held Sippoy on WHM once while the "tank" recovered from Weakness. I'm forever told to turn around on an NM so the NIN can get hate... asked not to WS so much... have to spam jumps to shed hate on DRG... I'm like WTF am I supposed to do, sit on my ass? It's frustrating sometimes how crazy hate is on some targets now. For the last month or so, they've always had me come WHM or SMN for the triggers...which is getting a little old. While it's always fun smacking things with Garuda...I'd like to feel the rush of beating something myself once in a while. But noooo... Cataclysm is bad... makes amber if it kills.... meh.

...no respect...

Raist

I often find myself telling several people not to fight certain NMs and to let the "pros" handle it. But I only do this when the situation sees fit. If you can't put out sufficient dps to make up for the tp you're feeding to the targets, you're better off not getting in the way. That's not to say I don't give people a chance. If they can't perform up to standard, they are only hurting the cause. That's why I find this thread helpful to people who are willing to learn to adapt and improve themselves, so they aren't constantly asked to sit on the side twiddling their thumbs.

Edit: with 1-2 above average WHMs, TP feed shouldn't really be an issue with a majority of NMs that are popular today, so if anyone is dying, you can put the blame on your slacking mages.

In your case Raist, it sounds like your DRG should be up there tanking and you should fire the NIN that can't keep up enough dps to maintain a solid hold on hate (although since enmity has a cap that's easy to reach, it's almost impossible for any single person to have hate at all times, assuming everyone is doing their job correctly).

With Abyssea, it's obvious which jobs are most useful for the biggest situations, namely triggering NM weaknesses. When you want a WAR and NIN on the front line, and you bring say RNG or BST or DRG, you are definitely going to be doing a lot of bench warming. That's not to say they are completely useless, but most situations wouldn't generally call for them. In the end, it's all situational.

[Relyk]

Yeah you're right man. lol. I'm being such a lazy ass. I guess if I'm paying for a game and invest time into it, no matter how tired and shot my brain is at the end of the day, I should try to make the best of it. And it'll only improve myself as a player.
/sigh better start working on some builds. And as for my pld, Haste is a god sent because as for the moment we wont be used for anything but what little Dps we can offer. (I say that realizing I have no grounds on which to back that claim up.)
Thanks again GG.

This is too great, I cried a little inside.

[Dauntless]

Does gear haste effect casting times as well?

[RAIST]

recasting time, but not casting time--that's Fast Cast.

Raist

[Dauntless]

recasting time, but not casting time--that's Fast Cast.

Raist

Tis what I was referring to. Thanks.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

yeah, now if you can combine fast cast gear and haste gear, that would be sexy ^.^

[Vivik]

yeah, now if you can combine fast cast gear and haste gear, that would be sexy ^.^

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