Actually the 1/4 second cast time is on the 3rd attack in the chain, if you watch closely during combat you will see the first 2 attacks go off and then right before Necrotic bite your character will “wind up” the last attack and you should see a cast bar pop up at youy toon’s feet. When the cast bar fills up (1/4 seconds) the attack goes off.
There’s actually what you might call a “hidden” cooldown on abilities. Basically it’s the time at which it takes for the attack animation to begin and end before the next animation plays. This causes some abilities to take longer than their advertised activation time.
Eilir Eirasdottir, Guardian, Tarnished Coast
Painbow.6059: Ignore what anyone else who doesn’t agree with me has said because its wrong.
No, Necrotic Bite takes 1/4 seconds to trigger. The first two are considered to be “instant” but still take a small fraction of time due to their animations. Basically if you take off autocast and engage an enemy the basic thought is that Slash and Stab will happen right after you press the button to activate them and then Bite will happen 1/4 of a second after you press the button a third time.
My character doesn’t wait 3.5 second before actually doing Hundred Blades.
No but it takes 3.5 seconds for full damage to be reached. Just as with necrotic bite, which takes 1/4 seconds to cause damage. Sometimes damage starts at the beginning of an activation timer and cumulates damage over time, while others start an animation and cause damage at the end of the activation timer.
