Cast speed/Benevolent Alacrity cap question

[ashen1973]

<p>I've been working on increasing my casting speed's.</p><p>Currently I am getting 40% from Benevolent Alacrity on gear</p><p>and the 14% from Facile Grace (AA, Cleric INT line)</p><p>(I also have Divine recovery for a further, temporary 50%, but would keep this, even if I was personally at cap, as it benefits group-members)</p><p>Is there a hard-cap on cast speed increasing effects?</p><p>Or is there a soft-cap where further additions are just not worthwhile?</p><p>Thanks for any help.</p>

[MoonSorceror]

<p>Afaik, spell haste caps at 100% which cuts your casting time in half. Iiirc there was no diminishing returns aka soft cap, but you might want to check yourself by examining a spell w/o any spell haste gear, with your normal gear and with divine recovery (and maybe even post the values).</p>

[ashen1973]

<p><cite>MoonSorceror wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Afaik, spell haste caps at 100% which cuts your casting time in half. Iiirc there was no diminishing returns aka soft cap, but you might want to check yourself by examining a spell w/o any spell haste gear, with your normal gear and with divine recovery (and maybe even post the values).</p></blockquote><p>Thanks, took your advice and went and checked some numbers.</p><p>I used Holy Intercession VI as the example, as it had a fairly high cast time (5 seconds unmoddified)</p><p>Here are the figures I came up with</p><p>My base cast reduction, with no gear, is 14.4% (from the AA ability, i didnt bother to respec out to check what it was a with 0% cast speed)</p><p>Amount of                                   Cast time with</p><p>Ben Alacrity          Cast time        Divine Recovery</p><p>           0                  4.37                   3.04                                       </p><p>           5                  4.19                   2.95</p><p>         10                  4.02                   2.87</p><p>         15                  3.86                   2.79</p><p>         20                  3.72                   2.71</p><p>         25                  3.59                   2.64</p><p>         30                  3.46                   2.57</p><p>         35                  3.35                   2.51</p><p>         40                  3.24                   2.50</p><p>these figures seem to confirm that there is a cap of 50% of the original cast-time (with DR and 35 BA cast reduction would be 99% and casttime is 2.51. with 40 BA cast reduction would be 104% and casttime is 2.50).</p><p>Unfortunately I havn't got any more BA gear to increase it over 40% just to prove the point, but it seems the casttime difference between 99% and 104% is smaller than it would be if there was no cap, and it would be a huge coincidence for 104% to fall at exactly 50% of the original casttime.</p><p>These figures also seem to show there is some sort of diminishing returns curve in play here.</p><p>Each additional 5% BA added gives slightly less casttime reduction.</p>