Spell Cast Times / Recast Times

[Flunklesnarkin]

Firstly I have made a bug thread about this topic.
http://bugs.dspt.info/show_bug.cgi?id=246


I've been going through my WHM spells and It seems 90 to 95 percent of them have incorrect cast times.

Most of the spells have double or triple cast times, some as much as five times greater than it should be.

The recast times are mostly correct.

I have noticed that there was also a bug thread made in regards to NIN spells but I haven't tested those yet either.

The amount of incorrect cast times makes me wonder if this is a problem with spells in general and not just the WHM job.

Do any other jobs besides WHM and NIN have cast time issues?

I've been meaning to test out BLM some, its just disheartening playing it when you resist so much xD

[PrBlahBlahtson]

It seems that SE may have done some re-balancing and changed the casting/recast times on a few. I've never experienced a 7 second cast on a cure spell, though. I suspect what you're seeing may either be client side, or specific to the server in question.

[Flunklesnarkin]

ahh, I guess I could try out a few of the different log on clients.

I've been using MXI but I can try ffxiboot.

I was on the Darkstar Classic Test Server when I tested all the cast times, but I noticed this as well on the Sinister Skies server.

Will test in a little bit.


update

I tried out the older version of MXI listed on the client setup wiki and I still have the same cast times.

I tried ffxiboot listed on the client setup wiki and it always crashes

I sure hope its not just me with messed up cast times, really ruins the game play when its so slow. Not even worth playing a caster job lol

[Flunklesnarkin]

Well, got my friend Eunan who is using ffxi-boot on the dark star classic server to try out a few spells.


I had timestamp running next to him and it was still seven seconds, although I don't know if thats just delay on the message log, but I still don't remember spells like curaga and blindna taking that long to cast.

Cure seems to hit about 3.5 ~ 4 seconds after cast and then the message shows up in log 3 seconds later.

It's not a lag spike either because I cast over and over, always the same.

Either way cure should be a 2 second spell so some of the cast times are off.

Whether its just the Dark Star Classic Server alone or all of them I don't know.

But we tried both MXI and FFXI-Boot

[kjLotus]

I've been meaning to test out BLM some, its just disheartening playing it when you resist so much xD

The last time you played BLM was...?

[Flunklesnarkin]

couple of days ago, I haven't tried it since rev 1765 was added, not that I know where to check what each revision updates ;p

[bluekirby0]

http://code.google.com/p/onetimexi/source/list