Icebloods Warstaff

Stats

Energy +10
Cold damage: 11-22 (Requires 9 Water Magic)
Halves skill recharge of spells (Chance: 20%)
Halves casting time of Water Magic spells (Chance: 40%)
Enchantments last 20% longer




why a 40% half recharge time?
if u have two 20% half recharge time u only get 36%
kind of weird or maybe a way to get more ppl to play water?

imba

any solo builds to farm him?

no idea if there are any builds, but why make a staff imba at the end of guildwars? maybe its not the end? maybe a new line of skills is comming? maybe huge skill balance comming up?

Lol. Maybe it is 40%? 40% =/= 20% + 20% x 20%

Well, although this staff has a better chance to half cast than a staff with 20% Adept staff head and 20% Aptitude not Attitude, it doesn't have a chance to quarter cast.

The 20% Adept with 20% Aptitude not Attitude staff will have a 4% chance to quarter cast with a 32% to half cast.

Recharge times don't stack when it comes to weapons.

Casting times do though.

Osnap, I'll get this for playing Water Snare!

I thought it was gonna be +15e 20/20+30hp like the other staves that bosses drop there. But meh this staff is awesome makes shatterstoning fun!

Guess anet failed probability class.

Might go grab my ele one

quarter cast? correct me if im wrong, but i thought casting time reduction was capped at 50%

E/A sliver build works, especialy ebon battle standard of honor.
got in the 1st run.

Nope, out of luck, you sometimes get double HCT.

1 second cast for instance, becomes 1/4 cast. It's halved to 1/2 with one mod, and halved again to 1/4 with the other if you hit the conditional.

Maybe if someone can verify this for us, the "40%" sounds a little niffy. I imagine it is though, but it doesn't look and sound right...

Recharge yes, but not activation modification:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Stack#Effects

And I'm absolutely positive that I've seen Meteor Shower that I've casted activate in about 1 second.

It will require some testing if ANet just screwed up with their own 20% math or if this thingy really has 40% instead of 32% Half +4% Quarter casttime.

OMG, this will keep me busy and entertained till GW2. :> SCNR

They probably just tried to compress the text but forgot how Guild Wars actually works.

I wonder if it actually gives you 40%... if it does WTB!!

They've been doing that a lot recently, as the GWEN staves are mostly saying +15 energy rather than +10 +5.

Two lots of 20% are different to one lot of 40% chances, those poor text monkies probably weren't told that.

Ook.

Fixed. Behold the cause of 99% of bugs/glitches/etc in Guild Wars.

Ain't that the sad truth of it all?

If it really works like that then it's actually worse than 2x 20% HCT mods.

C'mon people, think about it

1x 40% = 40% of chance of halving casting time.

2x 20% = 36% of chance of halving casting time AND 4% of chance of 1/4 casting time.

Hows this weapon any better than what we already got?

2x 20% = 32% of chance of halving casting time AND 4% of chance of 1/4 casting time.