Benediction "Cast" Time ?

[BroodingFicus]

To be honest, Au Ra guys have hips that would make Shakira go mad with envy.

Also, stealing that Benediction image for sig. :x

I was about to say, have you seen Auri males? XD Birthing hips ok. /Especially/ in a lot of the healer robes. Unfortunately it doesn't save us from Benediction animation lag but at least we...look pretty?

[Kabzy]

It can be rather frustrating, but I do believe it is working as intended. We have buffs in the game, such as Ley Lines, that apply their effect immediately. So there isn't much of a problem server side with 'instant' abilities. But all of these instant abilities like Benediction, Hallowed Ground etc. seem to activate after a quick animation sequence.

So in practise, no it's not 100% instant, the animation is instant and the healing follows it shortly after.

On a slightly different topic, I do think WHMs are often a little too stingy with their Benedictions, sometimes it is worth using it if you don't have Tetra up and the tank is getting quite low. You don't need to wait until they are actually at around 5% or less.

[Nekotee]

The only moment benediction really work is when a Drk use living dead...

If it work for a dead and kill a living...
Hum...
Should be rename "curse"

[deos]

to be honest, SE should seriously do one of the following with bene:
1) make it really instant, like tetra already is
2) if the target dies before the healing happens, prevent the skill from going on CD
come on SE, please!

[Nekotee]

You can't prevent the cd from being used because if the target die there auto-self-target happends and you shower yourself from overheal

And even your last time from the wall won't stop it !
(Joke for deos)

[deos]

You can't prevent the cd from being used because if the target die there auto-self-target happends and you shower yourself from overheal

yeah that can happen, but it can also happen that the target dies WHILE the animation is doing its "work" above the targets head. due to this no healing happens at all and the skill goes on CD. happened to me more often than i can count... at least THIS should not be possible!

And even your last time from the wall won't stop it !
(Joke for deos)

i dont get it (maybe since english is not my native language?)

[Amiaze]

If I remember correctly, using a macro would circumvent this. If you set it to work only on a specified target, if the target dies before the cast, then the ability won't be executed because there is no valid target.

I seem to remember this working, but I may be mistaken. I had this problem a lot and spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to account for it, so perhaps my timing just got better rather than the macro working.

[Nekotee]

Tried to make reference since you're name amae koromo and her special move is to slay will the last tile...
(Failed... *cry*)

And here i did think finding an other saki fan

[deos]

Tried to make reference since you're name amae koromo and her special move is to slay will the last tile...
(Failed... *cry*)

And here i did think finding an other saki fan

wait... looking back, how the heck did i not get that reference?!? guess it really has been quite some time since i last watched saki... sorry >_>

[Nekotee]

I have...
Tetra is sooooo fast that it cast before CS drop sometime...
And it's annoying XD