Connecting the DoTs: A Summoner Guide

[Dervy]

In other words, Ifrit-Egi is dumb as hell and can't tell the difference between an AA and Burning Strike. Got it. Could it be a weird interaction between Ifrits AAs and its Skills? Like how your AA's are delayed until the end of your cast, maybe when Ifrit is in an AA animation, he's unable to cast Burning Strike until afterwards?

At 354 SS, does Ifrits AAs and Burning Strike happen at the exact same time?

If so, that's definitely a slight bug that needs to fix. It essentially makes SS a worthless skill in the long run for Ifrit.

Seeing as Garuda has no AA, you could re-run the test with Wind Blade and another long Cooldown ability and see if you notice the same inconsistency. If you do, then Pet AI is dumb. If not, then it's definitely related Ifrits AI, or his AAs.

So if SS affects pet recast (and isn't visible on their tooltip which is absolutely dumb and needs to be fixed) and not damage, then that makes life a hell of a lot easier.

Praise Yoshida.

[ShinryuReishiki]

Seeing as Garuda has no AA, you could re-run the test with Wind Blade and another long Cooldown ability and see if you notice the same inconsistency. If you do, then Pet AI is dumb. If not, then it's definitely related Ifrits AI, or his AAs.

Similar outcome with Garuda.

@354
Wind Blade recast: 180 frames (3.0s)
Delay: 6-7 frames (0.10-0.11s)

@737
Wind Blade recast: 170 frames (2.83s)
Delay: 19-20 frames (0.31-0.33s)

Also checked with Spell Speed buff up (737 to 884), doesn't appear to impact pet at all. It really seems like the only benefit from Spell Speed is being able to squeeze in more Aerial Slashes, Flaming Crushes, etc... Well, I imagine the DoT portions of Inferno and Earthen Fury would benefit.