difinitive facts on bloodstained boots

Does anyone know difinitively how much these boots speed up corpse-targetting spells (or more specifically putrid explosion)? I ask because as tombs currently stands getting rid of corpses before your opponent is of utmost importance, and it would be good to know whether a mesmer fastcasting necrotic traversal (or putrid) could beat out a nec primary with bloodstained boots casting putrid. I've looked through these and a few other forums and couldn't find anything difinitive; just random speculation. Any information anyone has is appreciated.

its slower than fast casting (im not sure by how much....and im assuming the mesmer has at least 6 fast casting)
i would say at max, 25% faster....its noticable....but not by much, and thats on minion spells

Bloodstained Boots work in a similar fashion to Stoneskin Gauntlets - the latter raise all knockdown times under two seconds by one second, and Bloodstained Boots decrease all Necromancer corpse-targeting skills over three seconds by one second.

Observant readers will note that there are no corpse-targeting Necromancer spells with a casting time over three seconds.

Bloodstained Boots have no effect upon Putrid Explosion whatsoever.

Peace,
-CxE

Has Anet ever mentioned adressing the issue? And, just out of curiosity; being as there are 0 necro spells with a casting time > 3, how did you figgure it out?

I didn't figure that out - it's what I gathered from talking with some alpha testers after observing a pair of Bloodstained Boots doing absolutely nothing. Back in the day the Necromancer Animate skills took 5 seconds to cast, and Bloodstained Boots helped with that. From what I gather, that's all they're good for now.

I'll have to mess around with them a bit more to be sure, but as far as I can tell the Boots don't do anything.

Peace,
-CxE

Ah. Yes, that would explain the existing situation; thanks for the reply!