11-22-2005, 09:55 PM
Gurnsey,Nov 22 2005, 10:14 AM Wrote:Well, it absolutely doesn't work for rank 1 Starshards - was only getting 2 ticks out of 4 when casting it on something that was meleeing me (no kicks or silences). I haven't tried it since - I'll have to try rank 3. This makes it much more useful! Hooray for bugs.
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My experience with Starshards has been like savaughn's. No problems even at the lower levels if I used a PW:S for protection to allow all 4 of the ticks on the Rank 1 version. But if you do not have the shield up, you will suffer the same problem that mages without Improved Arcane Missiles suffer from while in melee; spell stuttering. For a fixed casting time spell the spell stuttering is very apparent as it does a partial rest of the casting timer. But for a channeled spell the stuttering is not as stright in your face as each stutter takes time off the end of the channel time. This can make a short channeled effect like Starshards look like it ended early with only one or two ticks of the spell going off. And the spell stuttering does not take special types of attacks to do like kicks and silences.