06-05-2005, 11:33 AM
Quark,Jun 4 2005, 10:42 PM Wrote:People have claimed 1.0 second global cooldowns. Others have claimed 1.5 second global cooldowns. I had tried timing it in my head before, and came closer to 1.0 but somewhat off. What's the discrepency? There is a 500 ms grace period given in cooldown calculations server side, to allow for latency problems. So if you hit the button at, say, 1.1 seconds, the server would still allow even though you're 0.4 seconds early. The reason some Hunters experienced reduced DPS in the test patch was that they were no longer using up thier grace period.
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Quark, you are misunderstanding where the latency they are referring to is at. It is server side latency that may cause the server to still be doing calculations on some rather large events (say a 100 alliance verses 100 horde raid in a major city). In a case like this if the server was enforcing a straight 1.5 second cooldown; the server itself may not have cycled the cooldown correctly till 1.6 seconds due to a heavier than designed work load. Your client is still enforcing the full 1.5 second cooldown. Keep in mind that the flash you are seeing on the icon is after the cooldown is over on the client side.