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[Fishing] Haste and fishing

  1. chubtohd <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    Has anyone done the testing to save me the time of doing it to see if Haste Rating shortens the cast time of fishing?

    I could see it possibly giving an (albeit slight) advantage in the fishing tourney if you'd libram up your hat and boots...

  2. el <Nat Pagle's Love Child>, 1 year ago:

    I'd love to know if haste shortens cast time for fishing. I assume it does not, but fishing historically has a lot of quirks like this. Testing either needs a lot of haste gear, or a lot of low server ping test data. A fraction of a second advantage, on an inherently random process, will be difficult to prove. If I get a chance, I will try and assemble +haste gear in the Wrath beta, since it now often appears on green items.

  3. chubtohd <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    zomg...my first post and it was replied to by the king himself :) I ROCK! lol

    i will do the same El and begin to post my findings...this afternoon when I get some time I'll come up with a list of controls, gear, etc...

  4. Oberweiss <Moderator>, 1 year ago:

    I requested more information about this from my guild, and Lore (of Main Tankadin fame) replied:

    Tested with:

    95 spell haste (6% even, enough to reduce my 1.5 sec heal to 1.4 secs)
    107 melee haste (6.79%, reduces fishing pole's 3.00 attack speed to 2.81)

    Fishing time remained @ 22 secs in both setups.

    So it appears to not affect the fishing "cast" time.

  5. chubtohd <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    sorry...i might've been too vague

    i wasn't thinking the fishing time (that was an interesting thought on it though...thanks for putting together some tests!)

    i was thinking more of the time it took for you to cast and your bobber to hit the water...my understanding of haste led me to think that that would be where we'd see an increase...albeit rather small...

  6. Kahless <Salty>, 1 year ago:

    Fishing is technically a channeled spell.
    I don't think haste shortens channeling times on channeled spells

  7. Pipre <Deadly Salty>, 1 year ago:

    haste most definitely affects channeled spells. Have you seen what the insane haste self buff that mages can steal in ZA does to their arcane missiles? When of our mages said he was clearing 5k DPS while that buff was on him.

  8. Kahless <Salty>, 1 year ago:

    Does it actually shorten the channeling time? Or does it just let you get off more missiles in the same time?
    If it shortened the channeling time without increasing the firing rate, you'd end up with fewer missiles and less damage.

  9. Pipre <Deadly Salty>, 1 year ago:

    It does both.

  10. chubtohd <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    well...after extensive testing here are the conclusions i've come to...feel free to challenge them :)

    1) It was a waste of time :) The casting time (time for bobber to leave hand to water) is determinate on your ping. And without a consistent ping (or hard code data from the game itself) it is impossible to test

    2) I am truly the worst fisherman on the planet :( In testing I caught my 7th Mr Pinchy and with 2 wishes down, he has still failed to give me a pet....he hates me and 0-20 is a little ridiculous :)

    3) What we already knew, haste does not affect the actual time the bobber is in the water (although with a guaranteed catch now, it would be sweet...that would be something pretty awesome for WotLK...a fishing time altering food, loot card buff, item, etc...)

    4) Again, what we already knew, is that haste only appears to affect the melee swing speed of the fishing pole while in combat...so until catching fish by beating them to death yields up consumables or pets...haste stacking has no benefit to fishermen

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