Chi

[Lethe5683]

<p>I can't believe I never noticed this before but chi reduces the recast time of all spells/abilities by 50% (as it's supposed to) except for CHI itself, which it reduces by only 33.33%.  Was there any ever reasoning given as to why this would be?</p>

[Xaile]

<p>There's a very distinct difference between improving reuse speed by 50% and reducing reuse timers by 50%.</p><p>Chi improves reuse speed by 50%, which is not the same thing as cutting the recast timer in half.</p><p>Normally, everyone's reuse timers refresh at full speed. Adding 50% more speed to that would put us at 150% of the speed at which we were previously, which is effectively cutting 1/3 off of all of our reuse timers. (A bit more than 1/3 if you have Ambidexterity and/or Ykeshan Spellbear.)</p><p>Chi normally has a recast of 10 minutes, which is 600 seconds. It improves reuse speed by 50%, and I also have 12% from Ambidexterity and 3% for the Ykeshan Spellbear Whistle, for a total of 65% reuse speed.</p><p>100% (normal reuse speed) / 165% (reuse speed counting bonuses) = 60.60%, which should be the amount of time my CA's are refreshing at, relative to their base reuse, making a 39.4% reduction.</p><p>600 seconds * 60.60% = 363.63 seconds (or 6 minutes and 3.63 seconds, rounded to 6 min and 4 seconds) should be Chi's true recast, which matches what the game displays as the recast.</p><p>All of my other CA's are operating at 60.60% of their base reuse as well, for a total of 39.4% reuse reduction (for example, Gut Punch is at 36.3 seconds, Pummel is at 6.1 seconds, etc)</p><p>In order to cut the recast of an ability in half, you would have to double the speed at which your abilities refresh, so you would need +100% reuse speed.</p>

[Lethe5683]

<p><cite>Xaile wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>There's a very distinct difference between improving reuse speed by 50% and reducing reuse timers by 50%.</p><p>Chi improves reuse speed by 50%, which is not the same thing as cutting the recast timer in half.</p><p>Normally, everyone's reuse timers refresh at full speed. Adding 50% more speed to that would put us at 150% of the speed at which we were previously, which is effectively cutting 1/3 off of all of our reuse timers. (A bit more than 1/3 if you have Ambidexterity and/or Ykeshan Spellbear.)</p><p>Chi normally has a recast of 10 minutes, which is 600 seconds. It improves reuse speed by 50%, and I also have 12% from Ambidexterity and 3% for the Ykeshan Spellbear Whistle, for a total of 65% reuse speed.</p><p>100% (normal reuse speed) / 165% (reuse speed counting bonuses) = 60.60%, which should be the amount of time my CA's are refreshing at, relative to their base reuse, making a 39.4% reduction.</p><p>600 seconds * 60.60% = 363.63 seconds (or 6 minutes and 3.63 seconds, rounded to 6 min and 4 seconds) should be Chi's true recast, which matches what the game displays as the recast.</p><p>All of my other CA's are operating at 60.60% of their base reuse as well, for a total of 39.4% reuse reduction (for example, Gut Punch is at 36.3 seconds, Pummel is at 6.1 seconds, etc)</p><p>In order to cut the recast of an ability in half, you would have to double the speed at which your abilities refresh, so you would need +100% reuse speed.</p></blockquote><p>I see, well that would explain why it's 1/3 rather than 1/2.</p>