If your attack speed is 1 attack per second, instead of draining 20 Arcane Power once per second, it will drain 10 Arcane Power every half seconds.Īdditionally, Since Ray of Frost is a channeled spell.
The resource cost ticks by 10 and drains that much Arcane Power at twice the speed of your weapon. Channeling mechanicsĮffect: Channel a beam of frost that deals 215% weapon damage as Cold.
So yes, a faster weapon will cause more skills to tick faster, resulting in you dealing more damage over time, but will result in you using up more resources as you are channeling faster. Channeled skills might still be better with slower weapons though because on a channeled skill, you have as much mobility as you want, so the "mobility" and "overkill" advantages of faster weapons are eroded with channeled abilities, so all you’re left with is increased mana cost for increased damage. faster speed weapons consume more resource but may do more damage. There are a lot of strong arguments about why wizards should prefer slow weapons. It seems clear to me that if you want to play channeling spells (like disintegration), slow weapons really look better because the arcane cost with a weapon half as fast will be half as much.Įdit: I've seen this post. My question is: is arcane power adjusted on the weapon speed?Īnd side question: for channeling spells, will the damage output also be the same? I have a total damage output of 200dps, but now at the cost of 120 arcane power per second. I can cast 2 meteors every second, each dealing 100 damage.
Is is now clear that spell damage AND casting speed are both based on weapon damage and speed.
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