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Issues with Quartz
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Post by
Squishalot
So, I'm slowly starting to learn my way around serious L80 mage-ing. To that end, I've downloaded Quartz in an attempt to squeeze every last drop of latency out of my horribly latent system.
Two questions, if anyone has any confirmation (since I seem to remember questions over the first before)
1) When am I supposed to start casting? Before the red bar starts, the moment it starts, or after it starts? At the moment, I'm aiming my button presses for when the red bar starts, but the bar does jump around a fair bit when I'm in Wintergrasp (better in instances), and takes up as much as 70-80% of my cast bar every now and then.
2) If I start chaining Arcane Blast after a T10 proc, it shows up as the non-hasted casting time. Does this mean that it's not hasted, or does Quartz just get it wrong, and I need to start pre-casting 12% earlier accordingly?
Having said that... since getting T10 and downloading Quartz, my single target damage has gone up by about 30% on average, and as much as 100% on one occasion (no bloodlust either though - string of lucky crits?). I'm not sure how much of that is which, but either way, life is good.
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Post by
Squishalot
I'm definitely getting the Pushing the Limit buff. And I'm pretty sure that I'm getting all 5 missiles out, most of the time.
How do you avoid clipping AM then? Waiting for the red?
Post by
greywolfsage
I got a feel for my latency personally, but cause a bit of tunnel vision... as my eyes were on my cast bar as opposed to anything else, and relying on DBM to yell at me, lol.
With the sound sort of up, it might be easier to not clip AM, listen for the 5(?) pulses and start hitting AB after you see the last one start.
Worked pretty well for me on a laptop with only an Integrated Chipset... can you say "chugga chugga chugga woooo woooo!"
A whopping 3 fps during 25mans. >.<
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189212
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Post by
TheReal
I don't start my first AB until the cast bar has entered the red on an MBAM channel; that way, I am sure to not be clipping my fifth missile. PtL is most likely applied server-side since Blizz wouldn't want people hacking their clients to keep PtL up all the time.
The problem with using the macro is that macros are interpreted client side. If I try to use Fr6di's macro, my client will refuse to tell the server that I've started my AB cast until after my client thinks my MBAM cast is done, which is actually 100+ms after it is done on the server side.
Post by
Squishalot
That might still be faster than manually assessing when AM is done according to Quartz, depending on the latency. With my 300ms+, I'd be better off casting in red though, I think.
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