![]() With Icecrown haste levels the average elemental shaman could be casting one spell about once every 1.2 seconds or so.Īs we saw in part two, in a worst case scenario, our full network lag plus reaction time can be applied to every single spell cast. Which for an ICC elemental with 200ms latency and a 150ms reaction time could mean (in a worst case) that you’re experiencing 350ms of “dead time” between every cast – which we said are occurring once every 1.2 seconds – which means that nearly 30% of your time would be spent “doing nothing” instead of casting. Why do I mention this? Because, with our array of very quick casting spells, we suffer from this type of “cast bar” lag very severely. If our spells took 3 seconds to cast using the same parameters above, we’d only be spending 10% of our time “doing nothing” and lag would only be applied to our spells once every 3 seconds instead of nearly once a second. So lag management is very important to elemental because it can make the difference between, say, 30% of your fight time spent doing literally no damage or 100% of your time doing as much damage as possible.
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