Broken 'Re-use timer reduction' Ranger side (AA and Troub's Jester's Cap)

[Asla]

<div></div><div>Delete, triple <?!> posted.</div><p>Message Edited by AslanK on <span class="date_text">03-14-2006</span><span class="time_text">02:19 PM</span></p><p>Message Edited by AslanK on <span class="date_text">03-14-2006</span><span class="time_text">02:19 PM</span></p>

[ChaosUndivided]

<div>It's not broken just badly worded. Skills like Jester's Cap and Perfectionist essentially speed up reuse timers by 40%, they don't reduce them by 40%.</div><div> </div><div>So for example.</div><div> </div><div>Sniper Shot 15mins timer, with perfectionist (50% SPEED UP on reuse) = 10Mins</div><div> </div><div>Essentially think that the spell makes each second go that much faster. So for our sake, perfectionist makes sniper shot think 1.5 units of time have elapsed for every 1 unit of actual time elapsed.</div><div> </div><div>Do you understand? It's really bad wording on SoE's part, but working as intended.</div>

[Graton]

to put it in mathematical speak, the way to calculate the new recast timer is...New Timer = Old Timer / (1 + Stated %age.)So for a 15 minute recast and Perfectionist which is 50%New Timer = 15 / ( 1 + .50 )15/1.510 is therefore the recast.This same confusion originally came up around haste in eq1 and typically centered around the old FBSS. I used to chuckle at the folks arguing over whether it was 21% haste or 16%. It was both in a sense because 21% haste equated to a 16% reduction in delay.I agree that they should simply make it recast time reduction since that's far easier to understand and the way everyone thinks of it intuitively.<div></div>

[Asla]

<div></div><p>That has got to be the silliest thing I've ever read....</p><p>...but it works out perfectly mathematically for both Perfectionist and Poise, lol.</p><p>Thanks Graton!!</p><p>And I agree, they should just call Poise a 26% recast reduction since Oldtime*.74 = Oldtime*(1+.35)</p>