Affliction Spell duration

[jared96]

One oddity I never really noticed till I started doing stun outta team for new guildies was that making a affinity spell with no sap credits still eats sap like hell. So a 140 spell with say a 120 HP credit 10 range and 10 time thrown on a kipee will continually suck my sap bar down till my HP bar is full (despite the credit) yet after the 15th or 16th mob, I am totally sapped out.

[zarozina]

That's because affys have a "per tick" upkeep to maintain the link totally seperate from the casting cost. Longer you hold the link, the more sap it burns

[deadelf]

there is a window (not sure what the shortcut is cause i changed most of my keys) that you can make visible and to see the upkeep of the spell. its called 'active links' or somesuch.

[sidusar]

That's because affys have a "per tick" upkeep to maintain the link totally seperate from the casting cost. Longer you hold the link, the more sap it burns

This goes for DoT spells too. You can set the credits for the cast itself like normal, but the upkeep cost per tick is always fully paid for in sap. Would be nice if you could set that too....

The 'active links' windows has no shortcut key by default, but you can bring it up from the 'windows' window.

[elleree]

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-Sleep I never quite found much use for.
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Would "sleep" make a mob not see you so the other team mate could sneak past a mob? And does it aggro the mob after the spell is broken?

[23off]

And does it aggro the mob after the spell is broken?

Yes, that´s why it´s not that useful.

[jared96]

That's because affys have a "per tick" upkeep to maintain the link totally seperate from the casting cost. Longer you hold the link, the more sap it burns

Understand that....but I wuda thot that the upkeep was some how related to how you built the spell. If ya make the spell with sap credits, I'd expect the upkeep to drain sap. But if ya make the spell with HP credits, then having the upkeep suck sap seems like an oops.

[zarozina]

well, yeah, good point. However most of my affy spells would drain sap AND life if that were the case and at a faster rate too if it were based on casting cost. It all depends I guess on the lvl of your affy relative to the lvl of your available credit stanzas. If you are an AoD using say, a lvl 8 affy, you could probably make it drain only life, but at affy 13 I don't think thats possible. Except for Root, I use a lot of range creds in mine, but even though its not as heavy as ele casting, they still use pretty high creds for both hp and sap.

I have noticed there are times when the link upkeep seems inordinately expensive, even for the MA I usually wear when affying - and this does seem to be a bug, as I've found unequiping everything and re-equiping does seem to make the link cost go back to a more normal level.

[seawe]

And does it aggro the mob after the spell is broken?

Yes, that´s why it´s not that useful.

it works ok if you're able to run outa range before it breaks, but your ability to do that is very infrequent.. could use some love from the devs imo as it would make an awesome solo skill for avoidance