Camelot Grab Bag Q&A

Mythic’s Sanya Thomas has put together another Friday Grab Bag Q&A over on Camelot Herald. A snippet to follow:

Q: How do haste spells work?

A: You swing more often. Bear in mind that everyone has a melee damage range, and that the number of points of inflicted damage can vary anywhere in that range. (Your range depends on factors such as specialization points, other stat buffs, enhancing items, your natural stats, etc.)

I have had a lot of questions on this recently, because we recently nerfed it (it used to make you swing almost twice as fast as normal even if the person who hasted you was low level). However – we have run EXTENSIVE tests on this spell. Because that potential damage range can be wide, and some fights can be short (short defined as less than five swings), it is possible to have a situation where you do less damage with haste up than otherwise. However, those situations are not common, and have zero to do with the haste spell. All but one of our test runs showed the hasted character doing more damage overall as opposed to the non-hasted character. And the effect gets better the higher level the haste spell.