Leviathan.Comeatmebro said: »
Unless you have no buffs and ***gear, apamajas ii will not cut a significant amount off of the recast of stun. You see 14% and think 'w0w', but it's in fc term not haste term. If you're getting haste term high enough, it ceases to matter. Asking for languor or focus just so you can pretend your magian trials weren't a waste of time is absurd.
..I have apamajas II, on all of my characters. It was wonderful when legion and provenance were popular. At this point though, it sits in storage where it belongs.
..I have apamajas II, on all of my characters. It was wonderful when legion and provenance were popular. At this point though, it sits in storage where it belongs.
I agree the biggest part of apajamas ii devotion comes from the time when neither atinian nor the now widely common +magic accuracy skill. In that time, apajamas ii was the absolute top staff, as no staff even came near its macc, even less its recast.
I dont know if -% recast fall in category of fast cast. I dont know the right equation, but just looking the diferent nouns and diferent effects (fc is cast and recast, and this staff is just recast), i would guess those are calculated separately.
I also agree apajamas became situational nowaday. Thats because the stupidly large interval between dangerous move of mega boss. Once you hit the interval as the same of party overall stun recast, and thats easy to do nowaday (like 15 secs per sch if x2, 30 secs if you can keep alacrity full time, possible of your dds are good enough to kill boss in less than 5 mins), any haste, fast cast, -recast is wasted.
Just to be fair, apajamas and atinian is a trade off of 133 macc for 14% recast. But just want to point that 133 macc isnt that great as it seems. I dont know how exactly boss resist mechnic works, but if i would bet in something, i would say its exponential, because once you miss one stun, you can even hit the next, but then every stun will miss, meaning after next resist, meva is a lot higher than current mage macc. In real situation, +133 macc (after you have an good amount already) dont mean like 20 or 30 plus mins till stun wall. Just barely 1 or 2 mins of stuns. And thats after 8 mins of stuns with apajamas.
We are at a point (in delve at least) where apajamas isnt necessary anymore, nor even a high macc staff, and honestly, not even schs (as i think a rdm can reach that minimum recast without alacrity). But what will decide your really need is the party setups and quality of your players.