Lightshadow, thanks for doing the test. I wonder when they changed that, but it's great that we know how it works now. Free spells don't count as casts for FSR. Note that this includes Surge of Light.
Originally Posted by Jo_
what about if you where chain casting and then used inner focus, did that instantly take you out of fsr or not, that one used to be the winner before kindof.
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The best guess is that the server tracks the timestamp of the last spell cast, and it's less than 5 seconds since that time, you regenerate at the low rate. The following things will update the last spell cast timestamp:
- Using any ability that costs mana
- Continuing to channel a spell
Perhaps the "free spells don't trigger FSR" is fallout from them changing crafting abilities to not proc "chance on spell cast" items. Crafting abilities are all "spells" but they have no mana cost. They could have just changed the "did a spell cast?" code to require a mana payment to change this, which inadvertently affected mana regeneration.