"Hands-off" Alexander

[Malacite]

Re: "Hands-off" Alexander

Dark Arts reduces cast times by 10% whereas Fast Cast II decreases them by 15%, so blm/sch or sch/drk wouldn't be faster than blm/rdm. Rdm has 20-32% cast time reduction depending on items used.

You sure? Wiki shows FC1 as 5% and each additional trait @ 2.5


EDIT: Argh I was looking @ recast...

[Sabaron]

Re: "Hands-off" Alexander

Let's just calculate it:

Stun takes 0.5 seconds to cast.

BLM/RDM: 15% Fast Cast (from Fast Cast II)
RDM/DRK: 30% Fast Cast (from Fast Cast III + Chapeau)


BLM/RDM: 0.5 * 0.85 = 0.425 seconds
RDM/DRK: 0.5 * 0.70 = 0.35 seconds

So a RDM/DRK has a 0.075 second lead on on BLM/RDM. I wouldn't discount that considering that since Gospel of the Lost is very fast we're dealing with human visual reaction time which is (according to wikipedia) around 180-200 milliseconds or 0.180 to 0.200 seconds. Therefore the bonus RDM/DRK has of BLM/RDM is 37.5% of the human visual reaction time which is much more significant when you look at in as a percentage.
I know that it seems like a very small amount of time, but when we're hovering over a button to activate a readied spell, that's really what we're dealing with. A fraction of a second wins a race and it can be instrumental in fine actions like Stunning.

Also don't forget RDMs can also wear Duellist's Tabard that pushes Fast Cast to 40%.

0.5 * 0.6 = 0.3 seconds which is a full 0.125 seconds faster than BLM/RDM and is 62.5% of HVRT.

[Malacite]

Re: "Hands-off" Alexander

SCH/RDM: 25% Fast Cast (from Light Arts + Fast Cast II)

Don't you mean SCH/DRK? Last I checked SCH doesn't get Stun.

[Sabaron]

Re: "Hands-off" Alexander

Don't you mean SCH/DRK? Last I checked SCH doesn't get Stun.

Oh right...

No, the calculation was for SCH/RDM, and no, they wouldn't be able to use Stun.

SCH/DRK would only get 10% and would be worse than a BLM... SCH deleted from above.

[Feba]

Re: "Hands-off" Alexander

Sabaron, have you tried pinging the servers? That's probably just as significant if not moreso =/ Or how quickly your client is running... and if it's storming in passhow...

[Sabaron]

Re: "Hands-off" Alexander

Sabaron, have you tried pinging the servers? That's probably just as significant if not moreso =/ Or how quickly your client is running... and if it's storming in passhow...

All the more reason why that extra fraction of a second matters. Pings are around 0.5 seconds which probably eats up most of the casting time of Gospel of the Lost. If you have a faster/slower connection that would be significantly impacting, but it's a factor you can't generally effect. You can effect your Fast Cast.

I suppose if you wanted to, you could do what Fry did on Futurama and drink 100 cups of coffee and transcend the limits of space-time before you fought him, but I don't think that would be good for your circulatory system or stomach...

[Taskmage]

Re: "Hands-off" Alexander

Why use Alexander as an excuse for that?