The Arcane thread - Page 140

myth123 · 02/07/10, 8:44 PM

Originally Posted by Arlie

The 2p T10 buff will be applied as soon as you press your AM hotkey after MB procs, even if you move, or interrupt it right away, and never get an actual single missile off. You "consume" the MB simply by pressing your AM hotkey. It doesn't matter if you clip a missile or not, or clip all of them, you'll still get the "Pushing the Limit" haste buff.

I am almost certain this is incorrect. I just went to check at the dummies with the birthday suit+2xT10 and the first AB,with a clipped AM, casts at 2.3s and one after goes to 2.1.

By almost certain I mean something greater 95% but less than 100%. I am not willing to eliminate the possibility the server side cast time is 2.1s with the buff applied and the client simply doesn't know it. I doubt it though.

Morthoul · Yesterday, 9:19 AM

Originally Posted by Arlie

The 2p T10 buff will be applied as soon as you press your AM hotkey after MB procs, even if you move, or interrupt it right away, and never get an actual single missile off. You "consume" the MB simply by pressing your AM hotkey. It doesn't matter if you clip a missile or not, or clip all of them, you'll still get the "Pushing the Limit" haste buff.

This is half right. You still get the 2pcT10 bonus if you clip, even if you clip all 5 missiles. However, the buff is not applied immediately on casting MBAM. The set bonus somehow hooks into the end of the MBAM channel and makes it fire an event that grants you the haste buff then. This is mostly a feature to us, since the buff only lasts 5 seconds, and it's a waste to have it up during the MBAM channel. However, there's some delay in applying the buff due to how the event system works. People have been associating this with clipping the 5th missile, but it's not due to clipping at all; it just has similar timing to clipping.