gear cs bonus seems to be working fine

[vizsla]

Hi!

Because some warlocks were complaining about nerfed cs bonus,
( see this thread as an example: http://znurre.regnumonline.com.ar/fo...ad.php?t=66476 )
I decided to do some testing before using my cs gear.

To me cs bonus on gear seems to be working fine.

Sultar's terror casted 10 times:
------ average measured cast time: 3.00 s

Sultar's terror casted 10 times with arc.dev(5)
------ average measured cast time: 1.69 s

Sultar's terror casted 10 times with arc.dev(5) and 16% cs bonus from gear
------ average measured cast time: 1.49 s

Of course the test is in no way precise, I was using a manual stopwatch, but I doubt this difference is just the result of human error. Maybe people think cs gear is not working well enough because they expect arc.dev to reduce casting time to 50%, which is not the case. Since I've only been playing for two months, and never did any cs tests before, I dont know if something has changed or it was like this all the time, but for me it was convincing enough to keep using my cs gear.

I would love to hear about other test results or opinions.

[tikinho]

Lol one of the worst tests I have seen. :P

[vizsla]

Originally Posted by Stooge1

Lol one of the worst tests I have seen. :P

And this is one of the most worthless comments I have ever seen. If you take the effort to make a comment, why not put some useful info in it, like _enio_ did?
Besides, my only goal was to see if it makes a noticable difference or not. Since I could answer my initial question, I consider it a success. This is just a game, not a scientific research topic. I'm terribly sorry if you prefer more accurate methodology, sorry for sharing what I found. Most probably I will not do so in the future.

[doppelapfel]

Should be 1,5s with devotion 5 and 1,39s with devotion and +16% cs.

[von1958]

hmm well what you hear folks complaining about is from the old cast speed system. without a gcd , A sultar could be cast very fast compared to the current times

[tikinho]

Originally Posted by vizsla

And this is one of the most worthless comments I have ever seen. If you take the effort to make a comment, why not put some useful info in it, like _enio_ did?

Since when the comments have to be useful?

Just imagine someone testing on Sultar's terror which has 3 mins cd with a stopwatch.

[NSer]

Originally Posted by Stooge1

Since when the comments have to be useful?

Just imagine someone testing on Sultar's terror which has 3 mins cd with a stopwatch.

lol. If rly there should be test on short cd spells (like Arcane missle )

[_Enio_]

Originally Posted by vizsla

I was using a manual stopwatch

You need to capture it with fraps, preferably with 60fps captured, then you can read the actual casttimes out quite nicely.