Change regarding half cast/recharge

I liked it better when it was x% chance for fast cast/ recharge.
Half cast makes my setup useless and therefore the bonuses are also useless.

This game is so minimalist as it is (which isn't always a bad thing), why did they make it worse?

I think a better solution would be x% chance for INSTANT cast or recharge. This would make the weapons/ offhands exciting to use.
Think about it.
This game is getting boring enough, having to put up with a slow recharge/ cast instead of a hell-ishly slow recharge/ cast isn't helping.

If you feel this way say something here.

It's never changed, it's always been the way it is now. They only clarified the wording.

Thus the reason why they clarified it, because many people didn't understand it.

if you bored of cast/recharge speeds take mesmer primary ! but i really think you got it wrong. if you use skils with 25-60 recharge and 3-5 cast only and expect your items to do uber job recharging-casting then its your fault not theirs cause fastest you can get them is recharge:6.25-15 and casting1-1.3 and seeing the chance aint helping , you see the need for more tactical skill bars
--- but im not complaining --- yesterday i echo bone fiends and made 6 fiends almost instant

That's not the way i see it.

Let me use this example. I farm for ectos with Spiteful Spirit. I echo it. It's common practice. Before this so called "clarification" i could put 5 SS's on a group of smites. Now im lucky to get 3 or 4. Not due to energy consumption, but recharge time.
With the old wording, i did notice recharge times of 1 second. This wasn't a fluke. It happened every run many many times. That's how i know they changed it.


As for what tryptamine_xxp was saying,
No, the longest charge skill i use is echo. AS for needing a more tactical skill bar... can you make this many bone fiends?

It's always been half cast/recharge times, xx% chance. They just now explicitly say how fast and that it's only for spells.

1 second recharge for SS isnt half recharge. So no, it hasn't always been half cast.

I think you're wrong.

Whatever, he checked his and i checked mine. I know how fast mine recharged.

IN ANY CASE, this sort of recharge doesnt happen anymore. The fastest i've had on SS was 5 seconds.

Long story short, thanks Anet for another nerf.