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

[Frost]

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

Actually....
You can....

Fast cast initializes at the start of a spell and carries through to the end; Haste only needs to be on when your spell is completing. So if you start a spell in fast cast gear and end in Haste gear you get the best of both worlds.

Personally I start casting in say on thief: Anwig Salade(3), Magoraga Beads(10% cast time), Mirke Wardecors(5), Loquac. Earring(2), and Homam Cosciales(3), and end in 29% haste(overkill, but it's just how the gear works out). So I take 23% off the actual casting time, and 25% off the recast (Technically something like 36% off the recast inclusive).

Taking that a step further, you can pile in Fastcast gear, Spell interuption gear, and evasion gear at start, then switch to evasion(changing pieces you no longer need) and Haste towards the end of a spell, you get the FULL benefits of your gear. You only gain in that, since you're not attacking while casting, there's no harm in going fully defensive.

[Byrth]

(Technically something like 36% off the recast inclusive).

I'm not sure how you're calculating it, but I think it's technically just 25% off the recast. You only get Recast benefit from Fast Cast if you're wearing it when the spell completes. Also, M.bead necklace gives no recast bonus.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

I know you can combine them, I guess I worded my....words wrong ;p I meant that it is sexy when you do combine them.

[Frost]

I'm not sure how you're calculating it, but I think it's technically just 25% off the recast. You only get Recast benefit from Fast Cast if you're wearing it when the spell completes. Also, M.bead necklace gives no recast bonus.

Ah, kk, I always thought it gave both bonuses on initialization, that's good to know, thanks.

[Indalecia]

HO-LIE CARP! How did I not see this?

Cream, update me, I'm not reading 37 pages...GO

[rog]

HO-LIE CARP! How did I not see this?

Cream, update me, I'm not reading 37 pages...GO

Change your settings to 30 posts per page, and you only have to read 13.

[Altheav]

Thanks for the guide, Frost. Very interesting reading.

Decided to make an excel sheet to assist the OP in showing this:

/em swoons!
(I work with spreadsheets for a living and have a habit of spreadsheeting everything in my life as a result, lol. Loves me some spreadsheets <3)

Actually....
You can....

Fast cast initializes at the start of a spell and carries through to the end; Haste only needs to be on when your spell is completing. So if you start a spell in fast cast gear and end in Haste gear you get the best of both worlds.

Do you need to be a PC player to do this, or can an xbox player such as myself take advantage of this as well?

[Greatguardian]

Xbox players can take advantage of this with clever usage of /waits, for some spells. Since I'm fairly sure /wait would have to be an integer value, /wait 1 may not swap gear fast enough to take advantage of this on faster casting spells. Cures usually work fine this way though, ie:

/equip Cure clogs and junk
/ma "Cure IV" <stpt>
/wait 1
/equip Potency/-Enmity feet and junk

<st> tags will wait until you confirm a target before processing the rest of the macro. <t> works in this case too, but what Whm still uses <t> etc etc.

[Altheav]

Thanks! That helps, as it was cures I was most interested in, anyway. And heh, yeah, I think I switched to <st> tags almost immediately after writing my first macros.

[Byrth]

Thanks! That helps, as it was cures I was most interested in, anyway. And heh, yeah, I think I switched to <st> tags almost immediately after writing my first macros.

When I played on PS2 I always did it manually. I had a Fast Cast macro with my Fast Cast gear in it, so I'd hit that, initiate a spell from the menu, and switch to nuking gear / etc. It used to be pretty helpful on things like Ix'Drk duos.