Let's see... I've aquired an Active skill of an augment: Hurrican (even though description in sword said Fire attack ^^)
Fully buffed I could cast my skills Soul of Pain and Anihilation Circle with a nice speed (even though I have a casting speed of 236!!!) But when I hitted hurricane, it took forever to do. Is this a bug? Or does Expert Casting only affects kamael skills?
My random guess is that the base cast time of kamael magic skills is lower than that of normal spells in order to compensate their low casting speed.
Your augmentation skill probably has the same base cast time as the normal version of hurricane which is geared towards real nukers that have around 1000 cast speed.
My brother also got Hurricane on his Arcana Mace. He is an Overlord.
He got the exact same result as you. It was almost a 7 second cast or something close to that. Orcs do not have fast cast speed what so ever, but the augment cast speed was horrific. It was also not increased with buffs . So, I would get rid of it if I were u.
kamael magic skills have far less base cast time so .....don't ever use a magic skill from augment (you will cast very very slow (just like a shilen knight))
So, it is only for kamael skills then. Imagine if a spell singer could get Soul of Pain or Anihilation Circle... lol he would cast that in less than 1 sec and reuse it again ^^
WC and OL skills have a fast casting, although their low cast speed. The same goes for kamael, our cast speed might not be the highest, but the fact is that our skills doesn't require a high c. spd. We only feel it when we cast a non-kamael spell. ^^
that pasive gives us (the soul breakers/inspectors) a lot of cast speed..... i think 30 :) ......wich for a nuker class is nothing :D
when we reach 600 cast speed it's like they reach 1200 ......that ofcourse for using our own skills.....plus i don't know why do you want so badly to use other skills ......you said your self that soul of pain rulles ..... i for one hope to get all my nukes (Soul Breaker style)......than i'll be happy
I agree,. we don't need other skills... but then it happened that augmentation gave hurricane (high lvl) and I said, hey! a free nuke!! but nothing of that!! It took about 7-8 sec to even cast that skill. Seems that item skills arent affected by the passive and I got a horrible 240 c. speed (which on soul of pain or anihilation circle seems like i've got 700+)
So I got very dissapointed about it, coz I had to remove the augment from my wpn.
Expert Casting doesn't have anything to do with it, really. As other posters have stated, many Kamael magic skills have inherently fast casting times, and that's the only difference you're seeing between your character's native skills and a standard nuking augment.
For example, a Soul Breaker without Expert Casting learned will cast Soul of Pain only very slightly more slowly than one with the passive. It has to do with the base casting time of Soul of Pain, not with the character's passive skill.
expert casting ....I for one ...feel it.....it does what it's supposed to do .....but what Romanec is saying it that it's not enough for nukes from augment!
I have to add that my luck is so bad ....i get only crappy augments or even when i get a skill it's like:
when i am hit there is a chance that i will get more mana from tergeted recharge and stuff like that ....
I am happy i got stealth now ....it's useful ....when i want to get faster to deeper catacomb rooms.