So I’ve been working on getting my Paladin’s Storm Bolt CD down to be able to cast non-stop and realised I could easily try my concept by slapping on El’druin’s which should completely remove the base 7s CD that comes with storm bolt. It did not work.
Let me give you some of the numbers I’ve got right now:
- 1.36s CD with maxed out skill points and CDR
- 0.96s CD with maxed out skill points and CDR including Relentless paragon board
- 0.5s CD when El’druin is active no matter whether Relentless is active or not
There’s a couple of issues here when the CD, which should be zero with El’druin, ends up being 0.5s no matter whether Relentless is active or not.
When I had 0.5s cooldown it still felt clunky and not at all similar to my overall attack speed, so I checked this up as well. My attack speed increase at its highest was 55%, and with one-handed sword that would be 1.7aps (attacks per second) which means I should be able to cast Holy Bolt at full speed 1.7 times per second. I did not. As I’m not into creating a scientific lab environment to test hypothesis in a game, I used another basic skill (Clash) as comparison and there was an evident difference.
It seems this 0.5s is some kind of flat number that hinders some skills from being cast faster. No matter why or what, Holy Bolt as a Basic turned into Judicator does in my opinion not count as a skill that should be “cooldown-blocked” or whatever the specific 0.5s is.