Shaman Swiftcurse Speed?

Dochitha

I have nimble. According to the files, curses are at 2.2s balance. With Swiftcurse, it goes down to 1.1s. With Nimble, it becomes 0.99s.

Therefore, Swiftcurse + Nimble is 0.99s?

I have been reading that people are able to swiftcurse at 0.8s balance? I've been testing but due to latency I can't get this figured out...

What is the correct speed more like?

Bluef

It varies depending on lag and whatnot. But generally with swiftcurse + nimble you'll see swiftcursing speed at a little less than a full second.

Amranu

A lot of people in Achaea think we swiftcurse at less than 1 second. But it average out to 1 second per swiftcurse.

Tael

Amranu said:

A lot of people in Achaea think we swiftcurse at less than 1 second. But it average out to 1 second per swiftcurse.

Somewhat coincidentally, I was trying to figure out the balance time on a swiftcursed bleed while bashing yesterday. When I first saw a few that were like .98s and a couple that were 1.02s, I figured it must be 1s. But after actually testing a few dozen of them and looking at the average, the ones over 1s were clear outliers - the average was something like .97s or .98s.

I'm almost completely sure that, assuming you have nimble, we do swiftcurse faster than 1s.

Tael

So just to come back to this, I'm almost completely sure a nimble swiftcursed bleed is .99s

If you look at the serverside defense message for swiftcurse, it confirms that it's supposed to halve the balance recovery time.

So it's 2.2*.9*.5 = .99

Dochitha

Thanks for the answers from 2 of the most well played Shamans @Amranu @Bluef .

Antonius

Balance times in AB files is a relatively new thing, so a lot of the numbers you'll see posted are estimates based on people using the abilities and averaging out balance recovery times they saw on their end, which isn't necessarily that accurate.

Sena

Antonius said:

Balance times in AB files is a relatively new thing, so a lot of the numbers you'll see posted are estimates based on people using the abilities and averaging out balance recovery times they saw on their end, which isn't necessarily that accurate.

It also only shows the base balance cost, so it won't tell you exactly how much swiftcurse reduces it.