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Clarification: haste affecting channel spell

Hatsumii

#0 - April 17, 2010, 8:28 p.m.

Class Mechanics
Q: How will haste affect channeled spells. Will it be similar to DoTs and HoTs?
A: They will channel faster but their duration will remain unchanged. You will get more ticks on the same cast.

Dose this mean spells like penance and DH will get an extra tick? For example penance hitting for 4 times?

Ghostcrawler

#17 - April 19, 2010, 9 p.m.

We didn't explain this very well in the chat.

The answer we were trying to give was that "channels won't just get shorter and shorter the more haste you get." But a more complete answer is that hasted channels will get shorter until you get a whole additional tick, at which point the duration will go back up again. We don't want to do partial ticks or things like that because they encourage you to just recast the spell.