Weapon Swing Timer, Classic?

[fastboy21]

Originally Posted by Baler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I was looking at another classic eq site and noticed a couple lines...
Does anyone know anything about this? Or can anyone remember classic live?



This would be a big change for casters/priests that currently, on p99 they automatically swing their weapon after a cast, so long as the cast time is greater than the swing delay.

The 2nd line would affect classes that weapon swap. For example this would kill that monk weapon swap dps meta. Was that even classic?

Anyone know anything about this stuff?

I'm pretty sure its unclassic. On my shaman I keep attack on so that he can get a swing in between casts...even if you chain cast (like chain clicking your nuke bracer) the attack will go off between casts if the timer has been met. I intentionally pick the highest dam weapon with a delay less than the clicky or a proc weapon for the chance between nukes.

Can't prove it, but I think I would remember that strat from live.

[Danth]

Correct. The Velious-era removal of spellcast autoattack reset was for hybrids ONLY. Regular casting classes had their attacks reset (if they didn't toggle attack off prior to casting) all throughout the classic era and beyond. Beastlords were given that bonus a few months after Luclin came out when it became obvious they needed it. Casters were only added during Planes of Power, I think, maybe even one of the post-PoP half-eras like Ykesha. I don't remember exactly when they got it but it was definitely far beyond the era P1999 covers. Never seemed like a big deal to me here on P99 because of how trivially it's bypassed anyway.

Danth