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 Cerberus.Firinia
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By Cerberus.Firinia 2013-04-01 14:38:47
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So far, with my Geomancy and Handbell capped at 190 at level 60, Geo-Poison appears to be doing 14-15 dmg or so. Not that's it too important of an observation since it's level 60 and all. I'd give more conclusive numbers if I could, but I have no one to brenner with, or to run around with to test on the Corse NM.
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By Quetzacoatl 2013-04-01 14:43:52
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Okay so I made a little cheat sheet for Cardinal Chant, can correct it at any time. Added some details for GEO's Elemental Magic-related JA as well.

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By Cerberus.Firinia 2013-04-01 17:09:34
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I've been playing around with your chart, and I'm confused. Casting from any direction never shortens the recast. Maybe it's actually fast cast and not Recast? Also, West side of the mob gives MAB for me, not east.
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By Quetzacoatl 2013-04-01 17:16:54
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Cerberus.Firinia said: »
I've been playing around with your chart, and I'm confused. Casting from any direction never shortens the recast. Maybe it's actually fast cast and not Recast? Also, West side of the mob gives MAB for me, not east.

Should be more consistent with what I've been hearing today.

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By Cerberus.Firinia 2013-04-01 18:03:20
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Hmmm... for some reason I still can't get the Shorten Recast Time to work. I'm kind of leaning toward maybe a translation error and it actually being Fast Cast and not Recast? I dunno. I'll wait a bit more.
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By Quetzacoatl 2013-04-01 18:09:13
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Cerberus.Firinia said: »
Hmmm... for some reason I still can't get the Shorten Recast Time to work. I'm kind of leaning toward maybe a translation error and it actually being Fast Cast and not Recast? I dunno. I'll wait a bit more.
Try testing with and without fast cast then, perhaps. I want to get that chart right just like everyone else does, lol
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By Cerberus.Firinia 2013-04-01 18:13:19
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Sadly, at my current level, I don't have access to any Fast Cast gear. ; ;

So I'll have to wait until I level up some more, or someone else can do it.
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By Quetzacoatl 2013-04-01 18:18:53
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ah okay. I'll be on the lookout for any news on it.

edit: someone else said it was casting speed as well, so it might as well be fast cast.
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By Cerberus.Firinia 2013-04-01 18:24:10
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Well at least I wasn't seeing things then. xD I felt like I may have been casting faster, but I wasn't 100% sure since my longest casting elemental spell atm is Water III.
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By Quetzacoatl 2013-04-01 18:43:20
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Okay, so this should be it! Nice to be able to knock this down.

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By Asura.Kohanu 2013-04-01 18:58:10
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I don't understand how it can be Fast Cast when the effect, theoretically, doesn't go off until the spell actually goes off. So unless SE just plain old lied about that part...
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By Quetzacoatl 2013-04-01 19:01:35
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Asura.Kohanu said: »
I don't understand how it can be Fast Cast when the effect, theoretically, doesn't go off until the spell actually goes off. So unless SE just plain old lied about that part...
Fast Cast is applied at the start of spell casting.
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By Asura.Kohanu 2013-04-01 19:04:00
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Except that's not how Cardinal Chant works. The effects of Cardinal Chant don't work until the spell lands,that's when the direction is actually determined, it said so in the update notes. So unless the trait can travel though time to know where the target's going to be when the spell lands, it can't apply Fast Cast to that spell.
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By Quetzacoatl 2013-04-01 19:09:32
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Asura.Kohanu said: »
Except that's not how Cardinal Chant works. The effects of Cardinal Chant don't work until the spell lands,that's when the direction is actually determined, it said so in the update notes. So unless the trait can travel though time to know where the target's going to be when the spell lands, it can't apply Fast Cast to that spell.
Technically though, Fast Cast can be applied in the way that it also lowers recast by a slight amount. Start in pre-cast set, then finishing the spell nuking southward, the CC-Fast Cast could stack on top of normal recast. Someone will have to try this.

It was a weird way for SE to describe it, but looking back, it does seem to affect recast.
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By Leviathan.Suljin 2013-04-01 19:12:26
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Hes saying its a catch 22
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By Quetzacoatl 2013-04-01 19:13:22
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Leviathan.Suljin said: »
Hes saying its a catch 22
Damned if it is, damned if it isn't. Makes sense. Like I said though, vague way for SE to describe it.
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By Asura.Kohanu 2013-04-01 19:20:09
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I'm saying whoever said it was cast time as well as recast, and therefore meaning it grants Fast Cast, is completely wrong. Recast reduction, sure. We can even pretend it's Fast Cast applying to do it (instead of anything else that does the same thing), but it can't apply to the casting time of the spell since the spell's already cast when the effect is determined.
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By Quetzacoatl 2013-04-01 19:24:41
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Ah, I see where you're going with this then. So it would be recast reduction after all?
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By Cerberus.Firinia 2013-04-01 19:51:10
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I'm so confused, lol.
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By Quetzacoatl 2013-04-01 19:57:07
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Cerberus.Firinia said: »
I'm so confused, lol.
You're not the only one XD
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By Cerberus.Firinia 2013-04-01 20:10:13
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I'm confused because it's not shortening the recast on my spells when I cast it from the North. So... I don't even know.
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By Asura.Fitali 2013-04-01 20:28:53
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Two evenings of hardcore casting from the south side of mobs in crawler's nest has yielded exactly zero crits...

Has this been officially confirmed yet?
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By Fenrir.Sylow 2013-04-01 20:32:27
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Isn't mcrit just +10 mab x% of the time? Sounds pretty easy to not notice.
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By Siren.Thoraeon 2013-04-01 20:45:32
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That's because Mcrit is basically worthless and way overhyped.
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By Cerberus.Firinia 2013-04-01 21:13:55
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I noticed the crit, but they were pretty anti-climactic.

Unlike the MAB one, the crit one only seemed to have a chance to activate. So it didn't apply to every cast I did.
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By Carbuncle.Sanders 2013-04-01 21:32:51
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Quetzacoatl said: »
Okay, so this should be it! Nice to be able to knock this down.


Before seeing this, a friend was explaining it to me in a garbled fashion... So the bonus is determined which side of the mob you cast from? Whether N/S/E/W; cast from the west for MAB for instance?
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By Ragnarok.Klife 2013-04-01 22:05:25
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Anyone tested chr and mnd equip for buff spell? I'm curious to see if it affect the potency. If no one did i'll try when i get home.
And maybe int increase the potency of debuff.
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By Cerberus.Firinia 2013-04-01 22:24:47
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Yeah, if you cast from the west you get MAB.

Edit:

Also, as previous testing found, if you cast from SW, SE, NE, or NW, you get half the bonus of each direction. For example, SW would be half M crit chance and half MAB.
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By Cerberus.Conagh 2013-04-01 22:26:10
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Is it casting from the west side of the mob, or when facing west??
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By Cerberus.Firinia 2013-04-01 22:29:53
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Casting from the West side of the mob.
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