Lets be serious about Selene

[SovereignAegis]

3%?

It feels more like 20% when it is active. I was ALARMED when Selene used it, how/why is it doing this?

Is this 3% boosting the character's current value and the scaling being on an exponential curve?
IE: Say I have 1000 spell speed, 3% of this ontop of current value = 1000*0.03 = 30 more but because of an exponential curve this 30 carries more weight than the prior 1000.

Selene feels incredible at present. When that buff gets going skills fly.

Exponential curve for the record:

[Viviza]

feels

What something feels like can be deceptive. On my SCH, it reduces my adlo and physick casting times from 1.91s to 1.85s.

About a 3% reduction.

[GideonHighmourn]

I "felt" it was more ... Then I looked. 2.96s Shadowflare without, 2.85s Shadowflare with. About 3% difference.

Seems completely useless to me now. No real reason to use Selene anymore; the AoE cleanse is nice, but on such a long CD.

[Amras]

It's because it doesn't work that way. The new ability is "ATTACK SPEED".

Skill/Speed Speed worked this way: Say you have 400 SS and a recast of 2.5. With the 30% buff on, your SS would be 520. Being 14 point = -0,01 of recast you ended up with a GCD of ~2,42.

Attack speed affect the GCD, so if you have a GCD of 2,5 the 3% buff would be: 2,5-(2,5x0,03)=2,5-0,075= 2,42 of GCD. This also affect the speed of auto-attacks

So this way, at low SS the old buff and the new one are pretty much the same, but the higher the SS, the worst the new one becomes and the better the old one becomes.