3 troub questions ! - Page 2

Heck · 02-19-2009, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Ballads

I really dont get it. I have tested timing auto attacks VRs. Spamming buttons and I lose DPS. Auto attacks always fire during my recovery time. I have 2 spells that are longer then my weapons fully hasted delay. I dont understand how you could be gaining dps from timing auto attack.

Poor casting order?

Dants · 02-19-2009, 01:20 PM

Even with razieh's UI mod which is basically a visual of when autoattack goes off, it's only really worth it to time autoattack on bump -> nightstrike combo and be aware when casting thunderous overtune / painful lamentations. Ex. don't begin casting it when you see the bar 1/2 to 2/3 filling up.

With that said, it doesn't improve DPS by very much unless you have a 0 lag environment which for me isn't often. Even small delays (0.0 - 0.5 sec) are enough to fuck up the timing and negate the benefits from doing it.

I think people think they see a huge increase because of Confirmation bias theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

Oyce · 02-19-2009, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Gulpen

Maybe the people that have been seeing increased numbers from timing have been casting things like overture and painful lamentations right before their AA is about to fire, like they go from a quick attack (1 second cast time) to a long one (2 second cast time) without letting their weapons go off in between, thus delaying their attack and their attack refresh by .9 seconds. I don't need ACT to beep at me I just need to pay attention and make sure my AA fires each time. You have 2.1 seconds to play with, sometimes it pays to cancel a long cast time and let your attack go off.

Nice haste you got there

. Best I see is 2.4 /sigh.

Accelerando · 02-23-2009, 01:58 PM

I've tried using abilites as quickly as they refresh and hesitating a half second between each, and I haven't seen a difference either way. I was relying on another group members ACT numbers for that information, and the variation I saw from one fight to the next seemed normal. I haven't done any research myself other than that, but that was my experience.