Fast Casting
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Fast Casting is the primary attribute of Mesmers.
Fast Casting decreases the casting time of your Spells. Additionally, each rank in this attribute decreases your Signet activation times by 3%.–In-game description
[edit] Inherent effect
| Spells | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attribute rank | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| Casting time | 100% | 95% | 91% | 87% | 83% | 79% | 76% | 72% | 69% | 66% | 63% | 60% | 57% | 55% | 52% | 50% | 48% | 46% |
| Casting speed | 100% | 105% | 110% | 115% | 120% | 126% | 132% | 138% | 145% | 152% | 159% | 166% | 174% | 182% | 191% | 200% | 209% | 219% |
| Signets | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attribute rank | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| Activation time | 100% | 97% | 94% | 91% | 88% | 85% | 82% | 79% | 76% | 73% | 70% | 67% | 64% | 61% | 58% | 55% | 52% | 49% |
[edit] Notes
- Unlike the primary attributes of other professions (which have simple, linear progressions), the effects of Fast Casting on spells have an exponential progression.
- Experiments have determined that Fast Casting divides casting time of spells by 2^(Fast Casting/15) (or multiplies casting time by roughly 0.955^(Fast Casting)).
- In other words, each rank reduces casting time by approximately 4.73%. Note that this is multiplicative, rather than additive, so with 9 ranks of Fast Casting, casting time is reduced to roughly 66.1% (0.955^9) rather than roughly 57.4% (1 - 9*0.0473).
- Although percentages in the table above are rounded off to integral numbers, the game internally uses full precision for calculating fast casting modifiers and applying them to spell casting times. After the Fast Casting modifier is applied to the spell casting time, the final result is rounded up by the game to the next whole millisecond (thousandth of a second).
[edit] Fast Casting skills
| Icon | Name | Description | 
| 
| 
| Campaign | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arcane Languor | Elite Hex Spell. For 1...8...10 seconds, all spells cast by target foe cause Exhaustion. | 10
| 2
| 15
| Factions | ||
| Mantra of Recovery | Elite Stance. For 5...17...20 seconds, spells you cast recharge 33% faster. | 5
| 20
| Core | |||
| Persistence of Memory | Enchantment Spell. For 5...17...20 seconds, whenever a spell you cast is interrupted, that spell is instantly recharged. | 10
| 1
| 20
| Nightfall | ||
| Power Return | Spell. If target foe is casting a spell or chant, that skill is interrupted and target foe gains 10...6...5 Energy. | 5
| ¼
| 5
| Factions | ||
| Psychic Instability | Elite Spell. Interrupt target foe's action. If that action was a spell that foe is knocked down. (50% failure chance with Fast Casting 4 or less.) | 5
| ¼
| 10
| Factions | ||
| Stolen Speed | Elite Hex Spell. For 5...17...20 seconds, target foe's spells take 25% longer to cast and your spells targeting that foe take 25% less time to cast. | 5
| 1
| 3
| Factions | ||
| Symbolic Celerity | Enchantment Spell. For 5...17...20 seconds, all of your signets activate 25...45...50% faster. | 10
| 1
| 20
| Nightfall | ||
| Symbolic Posture | Stance. For 5...17...20 seconds, the next signet you activate recharges 20...68...80% faster. | 10
| 20
| Nightfall | |||
| Symbols of Inspiration | Elite Enchantment Spell. For 5...13...15 seconds, whenever you use a signet, you gain 1...8...10 Energy. | 10
| 1
| 30
| Nightfall |
