Haste/slow and special attacks

[Namegen_Isterrible]

TLDR of thread through 5 posts: worn haste does not seem to be affecting the cooldown of my flying kick.


So how does this work?

My 34 monk seems to have a 9-second cooldown on flying kick, regardless of whether I have my RBG equipped or not. I haven't paid close attention to when I have spell haste (instead of just worn haste), but when I was just slowed by a goblin a minute ago I'm QUITE sure that flying kick was taking much longer than 9 seconds to come off cooldown.

[Treats]

Originally Posted by Namegen_Isterrible [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So how does this work?

My 34 monk seems to have a 9-second cooldown on flying kick, regardless of whether I have my RBG equipped or not. I haven't paid close attention to when I have spell haste (instead of just worn haste), but when I was just slowed by a goblin a minute ago I'm QUITE sure that flying kick was taking much longer than 9 seconds to come off cooldown.

Both Item Haste and Spell Haste affect special attack cool downs.

I think all special attack's have a base reuse time of 9 seconds.

With an RBG equipped (27% haste) the cooldown reduction is pretty low.

No Haste - 9.0 seconds

RBG (27% Haste) - 7.0866 seconds

Max Haste (100%) - 4.5 seconds

[Namegen_Isterrible]

My observations of flying kick's cooldown earlier today weren't exactly the kind that I would want to publish in a scientific journal, but I'm pretty god damned sure I'd have been able to tell the different between 7- and 9-second cooldowns when I was stopwatching things.

I will do multiple-minute logs here in a second of me doing nothing but flying kicking at every opportunity with RBG equipped, and then without RBG equipped, but I'm already 95% sure that MY RBG wasn't lowering the CD on flying kick.

[Namegen_Isterrible]

Kicking poor Guard Dister nearly to death just now, on level 34 monk with RBG equpped, with anywhere from 80 to 90 ms latency, spamming flying kick button every time it was about to come off cooldown, and without any stuns from Dister delaying any of my kicks:

[Wed Jun 13 19:10:32 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 59 points of damage.

[Wed Jun 13 19:10:40 2012] You try to kick Guard Dister, but miss!

[Wed Jun 13 19:10:49 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 67 points of damage.

[Wed Jun 13 19:10:58 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 73 points of damage.

[Wed Jun 13 19:11:06 2012] You try to kick Guard Dister, but Guard Dister parries!

[Wed Jun 13 19:11:15 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 56 points of damage.

[Wed Jun 13 19:11:24 2012] You try to kick Guard Dister, but miss!

[Wed Jun 13 19:11:32 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 56 points of damage.

[Wed Jun 13 19:11:41 2012] You try to kick Guard Dister, but miss!

[Wed Jun 13 19:11:50 2012] You try to kick Guard Dister, but miss!

[Wed Jun 13 19:11:59 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 58 points of damage.

[Wed Jun 13 19:12:07 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 56 points of damage.

[Wed Jun 13 19:12:16 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 45 points of damage.
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[Wed Jun 13 19:12:25 2012] You try to kick Guard Dister, but miss!

[Wed Jun 13 19:12:33 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 39 points of damage.

[Wed Jun 13 19:12:42 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 22 points of damage.

[Wed Jun 13 19:12:51 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 20 points of damage.

[Wed Jun 13 19:12:59 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 56 points of damage.

17 cooldowns passed over 147 seconds... 8.64 seconds each.

[Namegen_Isterrible]

Same stuff, no RBG (or any other haste):

[Wed Jun 13 19:23:01 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 56 points of damage.

[Wed Jun 13 19:23:09 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 30 points of damage.

[Wed Jun 13 19:23:18 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 28 points of damage.

[Wed Jun 13 19:23:27 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 42 points of damage.

[Wed Jun 13 19:23:35 2012] You try to kick Guard Dister, but miss!

[Wed Jun 13 19:23:44 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 22 points of damage.

[Wed Jun 13 19:23:53 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 56 points of damage.

[Wed Jun 13 19:24:02 2012] You kick Guard Dister for 48 points of damage.

7 cooldowns passed over 61 seconds... 8.71 seconds each.

[Namegen_Isterrible]

Someone come haste me in highkeep [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Treats]

Perhaps item haste isn't affecting special attack cool downs.

Can you parse one with Spell haste and RBG unequipped?

[Namegen_Isterrible]

30 chanter just zoned into highkeep, so gonna get a haste.

Earlier today with RBG equipped, when I got slowed by a shaman NPC my cooldown was definitely lengthened.