Damu-spells TP cost--something seems glitchy

[Shazbot]

There seems to be some sorta weird penalty cost for repeated castings of the Damu techs. Cast it once and when it's done, watch your TP. After a few seconds instead of regenerating 7 TP, about -4 TP drops off your wand. OK so, -11 TP, no biggie.

Now go crazy with 4 or 5 casts in a row. When you're done, quitely watch your TP for a few seconds as an extra 150 TP or so disappears. This is especially troublesome when you cast a Damu spell a few times, quickly switch to a different weapon, then later come back to the wand you cast the Damu tech with thinking that it as say, 200 TP left only to find that as soon as the wand loads the TP penalty from the previous castings kicks in and you're left holding a wand with only 50 TP.

Can anybody think of a reason for why this happens or is it just a glitch?

[Ravennittes]

The penalty to start casting and the penalty to end it. Nothing else comes to mind.

[ViciousXUSMC]

::looks around, wonders when remedy will enter and say "this is why rods are better!":: http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

[EJ]

Wait why you using a wand? unless that wand has more PP than any rod you have ;3

Maybe that is a online thing since extra mode doesn't do that.

My only guess would be to give it some penalty since those damu are very strong spells.

[Inazuma]

yea, it seems like a glitch. its very annoying to go to use the rod that should have 150 pp left, only to have it drop to 7 rite when you wanna use it.

[_Deliverance_]

Stop using wands for nukes! likeomg http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_chuck-ball.gif

[MayLee]

Wands < Rods.

Nuff said. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

[Careful]

Have fun getting no exp from the mobs you don't tag because barta couldnt hit the ones to the side.

[Dj_SkyEpic]

:0

Wand haters! *cries

[AngelLight]

I'm a strong supporter for wands for nuking (due to cast times not being nearly as bad).

However, for any spell that is a channeling spell, such as Demu anything or Regrants, the cast time isn't much of an issue and having a bigger PP reserve is more important for this matter. So I have to say that yeah rods are the way to go for the "spray and pray" type of spells.

As for the original topic......has there been any chatter about it elsewhere? JP sites might be a problem, but perhaps the talk pages on psupedia, or other neutral forum sites? I'm not sure it's been mentioned here yet or not.

It may very well be that there's a front loaded Start and stop cost on this, that would suck if it had a cumulative effect. ~_~

[Shazbot]

Fawk people. Recommending your preferred weapon hardly answers the question, does it? Wands OR rods, doesn't matter which you prefer, the the TP penalty happens to both.

[Remedy]

My work has already been done.

*goes back to bed*

[etlitch]

Wand = spammability = higer DPS = nuke > rod

[Ravennittes]

Damage Per Hit is Nuking, not Damage Per Second http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif.

[Zarbolord]

Guntecher + Wand + Machinegun > Fortetecher + Staff

[Tra]

sillies

wand + me/quick (or hull/quick) are for ra-, gi- and normal techs
rod + me/conc (sori/force) are for nosu- and damu- techs

nothing to it.

[Gazette]

Hull/quick + a wand is liable to turn your A rank wand into a B rank wand.
There' is no need to even bother with /quicks on a wand, just throw your +TP's on it...

Aside from that, you'll probably burn out your wand before you can even manage the same DPS.



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[Tra]

that's why I carry 15 wands, and I switch them around very fast during battle

[Gazette]

That's not the point, if you're going to use a wand, the cast time is already reduced, along with the TAP.
There doesn't seem to be much sense in reducing your TAP any further.
Equipping a Hull/quick effectively drops your wand's TAP by about 6 or 7 upgrades.
So either you better have a really well ground weapon or you're going to be dishing out some low DPS.

Now I'm not saying that wands are bad for DPS, I like the idea of dishing out spells in succession, provided that I have a TAP upgrade to make up for the loss of strength between Wands and Rods.

I dunno, doesn't make sense to me, considering you'd probably burn through your wands lightning quick while you could just dish out stronger spells at the speed they currently hold and do more damage in the end, but you're free to do what you please.


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[Otis_Kat]

Wow -_-

[Tra]

I'm pretty much going to go for grinding all my wands to +8 after the update (yes it's going to take a lot of time) but hey, you have a point. But you see, lv21+ Ra- techs take an abysmal amount of time to cast, so a hull/quick is needed to negate that cast time. Oh but then again... thanks for helping me realize something...

Wands + sori/force for normal techs .... heh heh yes that WILL work.

[Musashi445]

This is not a WAND/ROD Debate topic! God people, can anyone here stay on topic for more than 3 seconds?

And to the OP, I never noticed this offline either, so hopefully they fix it soon. Since I son't play the JP one online, I can't confirm either.

[Ether]

I hope this gets fixed by the time the damu spells hit the US servers, sounds like a pretty annoying bug

PS Wands suck

[XHunter]

Alright....lets see...i think i'll take this, and use it for future notes....one....day when i decide...to use a wand...for now...i'm a close Combat kinda guy.=)