Necro's boots that reduce time in skill that use corpse

Hey guys,does that boots works well? how much time does it reduce? anyone have any idea?

well i guess they work somehow, but i never was able to find exact stats. but i can raise minions in SF faster than mob (i assume we start casting in the same time if animantion started in the same time....)

No, they have no effect.
More precisely: They reduce the casting time of corpse skills with casting times >= 5 seconds. Since the casting times were reduced they became obsolete.

I beg to differ - in cases where I'm casting against a Gnasher to raise minions w/o Bloodstained Boots, I rarely beat em to the corpse unless I hit that % chance for fast casting due to my scepter.

Put the boots on and almost everytime I beat em to the corpse unless he gets a headstart on me.

Now lets move to the Binders in SF - I've seen them casting wells before a body has even been registered as dead @-@ but luckily there are plenty of bodies to raise from so typically have no issue with minions.

Maybe it needs to be retested due to the repeated patches, but last time it was checked the boots made no difference. Maybe I'll fraps it tonight and check the frame count again.

I have the boots but don't have a fast cast death wand, and for me every single minion takes 3 seconds. I can tick it off in my head. I see no improvement at all.

I have occasionally seen Gnashers beat me raising minions even when I start casting the nano-second someone dies.

A good test, done over 20-30 casts would be greatly appreciated!

I know for a fact that when the Animates were brought down to 3 seconds that the boots were not updated with them, so were obsolete.

No source since then as updated to say any different, and It hasn't been mentioned in any update on their site.

So heres how we assume it to work - It makes the 5 second animate spells cast in 3, but they already cast in 3 due to an update so for all intensive proposes the boots do nothing.

maybe it will get fixed with Tormentors 15k armor update

Sorry for bringing up an old thread, but does anyone know if the boots have been fixed in any recent patches? Haven't seen any updates mention it on the official GW site, I was really wondering if anyone has tested it recently.

Yes, this should be constantly monitored. Good call Amok.

Ill rez this baby once more. No boot updates. They still are just as useless as they have been since corpse spell cast times have been dropped.

i don't think they will ever be fixed cause the ritualist seems to be a specialised Minion master necro.

I don't think they need to be fixed, because according to my source of information (my brain): 5 second cast Necro skills will be introduced into the game in Chapter2. Hence why ANet haven't ever fixed them.



Don't salvage them just yet...