spell speed

why does someone in full dl and relic vs someone in full whm af no relic no primal wep, we both casted raise at the same time and it went off at the same time...

now should the person with the better gear cast faster..?

I don't think its faster casting, but faster REcasting

The in-game mouseover for Spell Speed says that it affects both the casting AND recast timers for spells.

As I have been getting more DL armor and putting my AF away, it seems to me other WHM in full AF have been casting faster than I have been.

The relic weapon has Spell speed but Darklight gear doesn't. AF gear has Spell speed. It likely just evened out.

Spell speed only increments in hundredths to thousandths of a second, that's why it doesn't matter unless a whole lot of it is stacked. I think if you have the best gear you get a tenth of a second off, which by the time the server checks your action .3 second later it wipes out your advantage by a factor of 200.

I think it needs to have a greater impact on actual cast times. For example, when using the WHM skill Presence of Mind I notice a huge drop in GCD but it means NOTHING because my actual cast times are still about the same. The only skills seeing any benfit in this case from PoM are Regen and Aero...

spellSpeed is a joke... I don't have the exact numbers, but while mess around with gear it looks like +10 spellSpeed will only knock about .01 seconds off the cast/recast... so yeah, I'm really going to waste my slots on this when there's better things to worry about like... idk, INT, MND, or even PIE...and while we're at it, stacking determination is another waste...

SE should fix that...either make it more noticeable, **ex: instead of 0.01 it should be 0.1 ...or remove the dumb stat cap for melding...or both...lol

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Originally Posted by Kantide

I think it needs to have a greater impact on actual cast times. For example, when using the WHM skill Presence of Mind I notice a huge drop in GCD but it means NOTHING because my actual cast times are still about the same. The only skills seeing any benfit in this case from PoM are Regen and Aero...

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I think Presence of Mind affects both, it definitely feels like it to me anyway. I've used it to keep people alive when I know they were going down without it before.

well this makes no sense lol

when it comes to spell speed i've only really felt it from selene's buff, but when that's up i really notice it.

Can you not do simple math?

Darklight gear gives zero spell speed, Thyrus gives 23.

WHM AF gear gives 26 Spell speed.

23 is similar to 26 so omg they have a similar cast speed!

If you used your AF with the Thyrus or the Relic armor you would cast faster because that gear has spell speed on it.

Because it's a terrible stat that should never be built.
Spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...orcehl=1#gid=0

I would think dl vs af would be the trade off. Do you want to cast slower but do more crit dps or do you want to cast faster but do less dps. Same applies to healing or to further extend the same thing is happening to melee gear as well. And tank too.