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

rugal nuker

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

E/Mo

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

Y.T.

Y.T.

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

Mo/

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....)

Epinephrine

Epinephrine

Master of Beasts

Join Date: Mar 2005

Ottawa, Canada

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

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.

Volarian

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Texas

NOT-Nomads Of Turmoil

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.

Epinephrine

Epinephrine

Master of Beasts

Join Date: Mar 2005

Ottawa, Canada

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

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.

Carinae

Carinae

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

Inside

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

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!

Former Ruling

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Oct 2005

Cedartown, Georgia

R/

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.

CKaz

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2005

maybe it will get fixed with Tormentors 15k armor update

Amok

Amok

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Australia

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.

Sereng Amaranth

Sereng Amaranth

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Amazon Basin [AB]

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

AtomicNoVa

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Ottawa, Canada

Currently homeless

Mo/Me

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.

Gildor Took

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Australia, 3rd rock from the sun

Mo/

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

darkMishkin

darkMishkin

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

UK

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

Mo/

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.



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