Assassins use a spell casting animation when they use
Psychic Hammer, Cloak of Shadows, and Mindblast. IAS, WSM, and BoS
will not affect these animations. They are affected by items with the
Faster Cast Rate mod on them. FCR works just like equipment IAS. It
has to go through a diminishing returns formula before it can be
applied to the speed of the spell casting animation. It's the same
formula as is used by IAS to figure EIAS, it's just now we are
figuring Effective Faster Cast Rate.
EFCR = (120 * FCR)/(120 +
FCR)
And just as with EIAS, we can convert the opposite way
with this formula:
FCR = (120 * EFCR)/(120-EFCR)
Using
these formulas and the parameters for the spell casting animation,
which are:
AnimationSpeed = 256
DrawnFrames = 17
Base = 100
Rather than make a whole separate page for the spell casting breakpoints, I'll just include the table here.
|
FCR |
Fpa |
|---|---|
|
0 |
16 |
|
8 |
15 |
|
16 |
14 |
|
27 |
13 |
|
42 |
12 |
|
65 |
11 |
|
102 |
10 |
|
174 |
9 |
For ease, the FCR amounts listed in this table are the amounts listed on your equipment, not Effective Faster Cast Rate.