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Question about animation speed

So i decided to take my castanic male sorc out of the basement for a spin and I liked it a lot... so I geared him well.
Then I decide to get good with him like learning skill rotation, gear rolls etc. Then I read practically everywhere that having sorc elin is pretty mandatory because elins have a lot faster animations. So My question is if this still aplyes and if yes, is there a fix in the near future? Because I like how cool castanics male sorc look and to tell u the truth elins are somewhat out of my comfort zone and I dont want to change race :P (Sry elin fans out there)
Thnx a lot in advance :)

Comments

  • It's not a super significant amount of difference, but it is still an advantage to be elin. Nothing is mandatory; I would only change if you're very focused on personal dps to the point of min-maxing every stat - which doesn't apply to say 98% of the playerbase.
    No fixes afaik, this has been around for a while.
  • mee, elins are traps

    popori sorcer is the best sorcer hue
  • StitchedSoulStitchedSoul ✭✭✭✭
    > @StevenAnthony said:
    > mee, elins are traps
    >
    > popori sorcer is the best sorcer hue

    No lol popo better zerker or archer :lol:
  • > @StevenAnthony said:
    > mee, elins are traps
    >
    > popori sorcer is the best sorcer hue

    No lol popo better zerker or archer :lol:

    dont forget popo slayer :3
  • tisnotmetisnotme ✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2017
    mee, elins are traps

    popori sorcer is the best sorcer hue
    > @StevenAnthony said:
    > mee, elins are traps
    >
    > popori sorcer is the best sorcer hue

    No lol popo better zerker or archer :lol:
    biboy24 wrote: »
    > @StevenAnthony said:
    > mee, elins are traps
    >
    > popori sorcer is the best sorcer hue

    No lol popo better zerker or archer :lol:

    dont forget popo slayer :3

    no don't forget popo good sacrifices hue hue :o
  • aeee98aeee98 ✭✭✭✭
    It is enough to make a difference for about at least 3 upgrades value or more assuming very good rotation and backtime.

    If you are concerned about your damage mileage, race changing to elin will be necessary. Otherwise, it is fine.
  • aeee98 wrote: »
    It is enough to make a difference for about at least 3 upgrades value or more assuming very good rotation and backtime.

    If you are concerned about your damage mileage, race changing to elin will be necessary. Otherwise, it is fine.

    OMG reaaly, that much? ahhhhh.... good bye my cool looking sorc, Welcome [filtered] Witch.
    I generally like very much chars that look weak but are powerfull that why I had my mystic elin but when I witnessed it running and I could clearlly see, for the love of god I could see panties so clearly after a while I could not stand it anymore and changed to popori race and that popori became my favorite race. oh well what can u do
  • DIONIDIONI ✭✭✭
    Castanic is great when you think about the passive for pve, for pvp elins have some obvious animations, i mean theres an elin floating in the air, you know something is coming.
  • ObsObs ✭✭✭
    DIONI wrote: »
    Castanic is great when you think about the passive for pve, for pvp elins have some obvious animations, i mean theres an elin floating in the air, you know something is coming.

    Elins have faster casting on the main Sorc skills by quite a significant amount.
  • Does this apply to other classes as well? specifically, Slayer.
  • edited November 2017
    Sorcerer Lock time on skill expressed in ms
    • Arcane Pulse Elin: 1015 | Any other race: 1265
    • Meteor Strike Elin: 3725 | Any other race: 3925
    • Lightning Strike Elin: 805 | Any other race: 945
    • Meteor Shower Elin: 6475 | M.Helf/F.Casta: 6775/Don't know about other races but probably the same
    • Frost Sphere Popori/M.Casta/M.Helf/M.Human/F.Casta/F.Aman/F.Helf/F.Human: 810 | Baraka: 910 | Elin: 1010 | M.Aman: 1255
    • (PVP)Painblast Elin: Painblast: 1330 | Popori: 1580

    • Fireball, Hailstorm, Nova, Backstep, Void Pulse, Pillar of Flame No differences among races.
    This is the lock time the server sends since the ones from the client are basically unused. Up to you.
  • Sylous wrote: »
    Does this apply to other classes as well? specifically, Slayer.

    Slayer's got a couple of skills equalized, normally it applies to all classes but you need manually check them since the data from the client isn't reliable, i took a quick look and compared baraka to elin/fem casta and they're the same in speed.

    It isn't odd still that somes have 1 skill or more faster or slower.

    For example, first SB hit of Male High elf lancer duration is 525 meanwhile other races have 625/595 but the rest is fairly the same.
    Another example, Elin's warrior pb is actually 100ms slower than any other race, Warrior as a whole is pretty equalized as well.

    This is only taking into account the lock time, there's also the fact of the distance the skills move you which can be important to you or not in pvp or pve.
  • Play whatever you think is badass. You won't regret it.
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