Bloodstained Boots Fixed Now?

In the latest update, I noticed that there is new text on alot of items. Bloodstained Boots got some new text as well, and it has led me to believe that A-Net finally got around to fixing the boots. Take a look for yourself. Attachment included.

Please discuss. Has it really been fixed?

dang it, forgot the attachment.

AFAIK, there was nothing wrong with them in the first place. Anet simply went through and clarified the descriptive text. People like to know hard facts, and finally Anet complied.

Guildwiki had a note that the bloodstained are broken because it only works on spells with a casting cost of 5 or greater.

I just checked the site and that note is now gone. So either they fixed the bug or the wording made it more clear how it worked.

Initially the boots only affected spells longer than three seconds, but none were longer than three seconds. Now the boots have some value.

Originally they were for the 5sec Animating spells ONLY I hear. But when the animating spells were buffed to 3sec anyway - the Boots lost all meaning. I tested them and they did seem broken.

The new text seems to imply they count for every corpse spell and are not broken :\ Might re-buy a pair.

good news...now where are they? lol

I'd like some testing

This is the third time I've posted this (search), but the boots are NOT fixed.

If they worked, all minions spells would cast at 2.25 seconds. But they don't. They cast at the usual 3 seconds.

The boots are still broken.

they are fixed, tried it, did it. talking to Gaile. they are fixed.

They are not fixed. I just tested it with each minion spell three times against the Student of Burning (it dies the easiest) with the Boots on, and on no occasion did it cast faster than 3 seconds.

They are not fixed. Tell Gaile they are NOT fixed. Thank You.

I still believe they will be adding longer-cast necro corpse spells in chapter 2, and the boots will work with these new skills.

That would be nice, however, the new description for the boots is not conditional or chance-based.

25% casting reduction for all corpse targeting spells.

All three minion spells are 3 second casts. So, with the boots, this should be reduced to 2.25 seconds 100% of the time.

Yeah, after seeing this and making this thread about it, I decided to go and test them for myself, since the people responding weren't entirely conclusive.

I've found that they are indeed still broken.

If A-Net really did intend to fix them with a current patch, they still haven't and need to take another look at what they changed.

If they merely intended to update the text on them and not the actual function, then they succeeded at confusing lots and lots of players.

What's going on A-Net?

well no necromancer spells were longer than 3 seconds but resses are longer than 3 seconds and didnt work either.

Resses do not exploit corpses. If they did, a stone summit gnasher forging a fiend from your lifeless body would render you un-ressable. And thankfully this is not the case.

I tested these again last night, raising 50 minions with them on and 50 minions without them on - and all took exactly 3 seconds. I wonder if these will ever be fixed?

Is this something that would likely be changed after the World Championship on Feb 16 though?

I guess the best things about these boots are two-fold:
1. Aesthetics (although I don't like the looks of them).
2. It lets you know who believes the hype.