Originally Posted by Sapa
22:47'02.633 Zek's Auto Shot hits Lady Vashj for 884
22:47'04.180 Zek's Steady Shot crits Lady Vashj for 2326
22:47'05.461 Zek's Multi-Shot crits Lady Vashj for 2905
586 Zek's Auto Shot hits Lady Vashj for 870
Multi-Auto combo on end puzzles me a bit. This is clipped shotting but auto dealt damage 15-120ms later? What I am missing here? Combatlog reading lesion?? 
0.5 delay, where is it? |
The 0.5 seconds isn't absolute. We don't know exactly how it works or if it is exactly 0.5 seconds. From everything observed so far ,it appears to be a spell cast that is initiated on the server when your auto shot cool is finished and you are standing still. The exact duration of the cast isn't known but from looking at combat logs it is about 0.5 seconds.
I suspect it varies a fair amount because it is initiated by the server and latency is variable. So you could have situations like the following.
000ms - Multi-Shot fires on the server
000ms - Server sends results of Multi-Shot to client
000ms - Auto shot begins casting
300ms - Client gets results of Multi-Shot (300ms traversing the internet)
500ms - Auto shot fires on the server
500ms - Server sends results of Auto shot to client
600ms - Client gets the message (100ms traversing the internet)
In this situation the delay would appear to be 300ms when in fact it was 500ms.
You should always keep this in mind when reading/parsing your combat logs. Every time stamp has some latency added to it. That latency is variable from one time stamp to the next.