A few Cleric Book Spells received huge delays, that I believe could use some further tweaking.


(Have tested these numbers with a stop watch multiple times with the new patch. Additionally when testing I had 6 Faster Casting and 8 Faster Cast Recovery.)


Restoration : Current Cast time: 7.0 seconds (0.5 Seconds before patch.) Magery Resurrection takes about 2.0 seconds to cast. I believe it should take a bit longer than Magery Resurrection since it is much more powerful, a happy medium in my opinion would be alter Restoration cast time to: 3.0 seconds. (Before the fix it was nearly instant, -  0.5 seconds for Restoration.)

Banish Evil : Current Cast time: 5.0 seconds (0.5 Seconds before patch.) This spell was mainly just a convenience for PvM play. Before this patch it had a nearly instant cast time, (.5 seconds or so) and now it is 5.0 seconds. I believe anywhere around tweaking Banish Evil cast time to around 1.0 seconds would be best since any longer may result in the spell becoming obsolete.

Dampen Spirit : Current Cast time: 3.0 seconds (0.5 Seconds before patch.) This was a spell with not many uses, but helped counter certain situations and was one of the only counters to animal form. Divine Fury would completely heal your stamina, and Divine Fury can be spammed and costs little mana, making even the old 0.5 second cast time easily countered and rarely used. With 3.0 seconds the spell is nearly obsolete. Additionally this spell does not interrupt casting, making its previous fast casting not an issue. I believe changing Dampen Spirit back to 0.5 second cast time would be best, any longer would make the spell not useful since you are required to cast many of them on a target before it actually makes a difference and even then, Divine Fury will fully heal the stamina continuously at that point as well.

Other spells such as Sacred Boon, and Smite currently have pretty long cast times (Smite will not actually target a creature or player.) These cast times could be reduced as well.

Purge has also received a delay, it is now 2.0 second cast time. (I will get hate for this statement but) - I think this is a great change, since Purge cures a LARGE Variety of spells that have a much longer cast time. 2.0 seconds makes the spell still very viable just not spammable.

Played around with a few of the cleric spells and noticed smite. Smite needs to be looked at again, unless the intention was to completely disable it. It currently takes ~7 seconds to cast, and once you are able to target, you are told "target cannot be seen" despite a clear LOS.

Smite does around 15-20 damage depending on one's energy resistance. Damage comparable to, say, a circle 3 fireball. Its damage is delayed like explosion, maybe a little longer, which is a circle 6 spell. The standard cast delay formula:

cast delay = 0.25 + (spell circle * 0.25 ) seconds

From this we can determine smite is equivalent to a circle 27 spell for the time being. As its damage is relatively low, I think a delay around circle 3 and less than circle 6 is appropriate. Maybe Kane can weigh in on the thought process so far regarding smite.

Good point Minos, I agree - Fireball cast time and delay for Smite would be perfect.

First let me say, I knew I was wrong while coding it nothing replaces actual experience but I figured this would start a conversation...

I just finished going through the crash log so hopefully we will have a few less of those, I will go through and make a second round of casting time changes so we can do an update tomorrow and see how close we are.

Thanks for the comments

Fixed, changes coming in Update 7