FC/FCR caps for mages...

[Korik Bloodguard]

I've enjoyed playing a mage since the game came out and the most exciting time was when we didn't have a cap on the Faster Cast property. The speed at which we cast made PvP much faster paced and interesting.

Is there any way we could give a cap of 5 on FCR and up the FC cap to 3 or 4? The FCR cap would help even out he playing field in terms of connection speed, and an increased FC cap would make for marginally faster-paced battles.

In terms of gear availability - one of the original reasons FC was capped at 2 - this is no longer an issue. There is a really wide variety of items out there which could easily help people reach a cap of 3.

A shield having FC on a mage (if they're using a mage weapon) helps with the problem of chugging, too!

Hell if you have to, attach it to a skill or something

Please, bring back some of the more fast paced action, raise the FC cap again for mages!

 

[Mervyn]

if it aint broke, don't fix it.

The only issue i have with casting at the moment, is mytics spells still often don't show above player's heads on CC, and for assist users, still no translations. Booo!

 

[Vlaude]

He wasn't suggesting a fix, he was suggesting a change.

Posting for agreement.

 

[WarUltima]

That's strange, I played almost exclusively mages up until imbuing came out since 1998 and mages have never ever been able to cast as fast as 2/6 because pre-aos everyone even if they are naked had an innate 2/4 casting.

After aos there was a time you can go up to 5/6 casting after introduction of aos. That was done with orny + arcane shield + 1/3 ring + a none sc fc+1 weapon with a trick of equipping last weapon in your spell macros.

Again NO, because classic mages had the slowest casting speed since the birth of UO. Therefore there is nothing to change.

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[Aragoni]

I m for removing the fc caps in all category of spells.

 

[Elden of Baja]

Orny
Djinns Ring
Scrappers
Helm of Swiftness
Arcane Shield

7 FC 6 fcr

I would say this is probably the worst Idea I have Ever Heard in my life. If they did that, then they would have to remove the Cap on Dex for Dexxers and make Swing Speed ACTUAL (Swing * ( 1 - SwingSpeed/100)) instead of the (Swing* (1 - SwingSpeed/(100+SwingSpeed)) silliness it is now.

With 7fc, I can guarantee you would get down to 1s flamestrikes. Instantaneous of any spell from the 3rd circle down. And about .5s Gheals.

Maybe make a mage only shard if you did this. Seriously a bad idea for Any other kind of shard.

 

[Obsidian]

Don't forget Venom, a Medusa drop...

FC 2; FCR 1; SDI 10; Posion Resist 20

-OBSIDIAN-