Improv haste decreases spell casting speed!!!

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 8:06 pm

yes, its true...

by one point only, but just tested 3 times.....

ok, one of my fav tricks is to use 3 triggered sunfires to kill things, and if you have multiple mages, simply pause and trigger on self each mage, and when you unpause the spell itself makes each mage immune to sunfire of the neighbor mage...but you cannot do this with a mage who has spell casting speed enhancers on...since split second timing is absolutely essential, if one mage has the amulet of power, he will survive and the neighboring mages will be chunked...

so i was testing stacking in umar hills...4 mages with triple sunfire will absolutely kill the shadow dragon, 2 mages level 30 with spell 50 had no problems....so anyway, i improved hasted sola in case it did not die instantly, and sola and aerie triggered....aerie died, insta chunked...

i checked inventory to make sure no spell speed enhancing items were equipped, and realized impr haste must have made sola's spell casting speed a little faster, just a touch, but with split second spell casting tactics like this, a second is all you need....

so i tried it several times with different mages and with both haste and improved haste....impr haste decreases spell casting time by a tiny amount, just enough to notice...

in fact, i cluaed in amulet of power, and equipped it on one mage, and impr hasted the other, no damage, so i know imp haste decreases spell casting speed by one point...not much, but hey, impr haste is documented to not decrease spell casting speed at all....

who knew???

Ainu · Post by **Ainu** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 9:43 pm

Interesting find.

So with the Robe of Vecna, Amulet of Power, and Improved Haste, you are effectively decreasing your casting times by 6!

I like it!

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Sun Dec 08, 2002 2:20 am

slight revision, retested with amulet of power, its like a half point, rather than a full point....

will do more exhaustive testing later...stay tuned...

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Sun Dec 08, 2002 7:05 am

my bad...i was not able to duplicate things at the docks...

must have been some glitch, possibly due to map...was in shade lord dragon lair...just ignore this thread and me...sigh....

but it did work....sigh...

Littiz · Post by **Littiz** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 6:06 am

Originally posted by UserUnfriendly
just ignore this thread and me...sigh....

AND you???!
How could we?

Come on, cheer up!

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