Cast Speed is BROKEN - How to Cast Spells Instantly - Cast Reduction & Dex Explained - Elden Ring!

How to create the best Sorcery build using cast speed reduction! Enjoy!
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[@RageGamingVideos]

While yes the hard cap on casting speed from Dex is 70, I went to 99 to really prove the point and have the best comparisons for you guys. Should have mentioned it though!

[@x4narizu4x]

Lol i was just about to comment the 70 thing lol nvm now hahaha

[@Kizerlk07]

Will weapon arts also get their casting time reduced?

[@VirtousStoic]

WOW THANK YOU, sorry I was just so excited. Because you are right spells initial phase 1 is the same so I felt like the talisman etc did nothing for me and ya some spells dont change at all like you said. You are a legend!

[@VirtousStoic]

@@z7trapsz782 he said no in the video man pay attention. He says the bigger and slower and more dmg a spell does the less its affected by casting increases. Also weapon arts are not sorceries so no, he also said incantation aren't affected by dex This man spends hours testing to give us knowedlge

[@BrandonWestfall]

What about using your azure staff in your offhand?

[@michalchik]

A little bit of counterintuitive math here from a math teacher. You're not actually experiencing diminishing returns with a multiplicative reduction. Your damage per second actually goes up more with each successive reduction. In this particular case, it goes from roughly an 8% increase in damage to roughly a 17% increase in damage or the second reduction increases DPS by 9% instead of 8%. Think of it this way with easier numbers, let's say we have a 50% reduction in cast time, we would get twice as many casts. So if our first shot did a hundred a 50% reduction would up our damage to 200. If we reduce that 50% another 50% so we are down to 25%, we can actually cast four times in the same amount of time so instead of going from 100 to 200, we go from 100 to 400. That's a 300% increase instead of a 100% increase. So keep stacking as many things as you can find it's almost certainly worth it

[@JDotLoc]

I love math

[@BN99239]

Not only is 8% casting speed helpful because you do more dps, but in certain fights, casting 8% faster can mean you actually get to cast the spell instead of getting hit and not casting the spell.

[@daltonrich7658]

That's actually a really good point. I never thought of that!

[@jacobnorris8256]

And for dodging away after you've cast.

[@manuelsilva3365]

Or just poise through it

[@Tom-gt8yv]

State the obvious

[@robertharris6092]

​@@Tom-gt8yv its clearly not obvious.

[@tsukuyomu2313]

nice video, in addition to the casting speed gained from DEX, Weapon and Talisman, there is actually another way to increases the casting speed dramatically. There are 3 spells, which has in their description "can be performed without delay after another action", they are night shard, swift glintstone shard and Carian Slicer. In fact these 3 spells can be used as the first action and combo with other spells that allows you to either rapidly cast like the Adula's Moonblade, Glintstone Arc etc. Casting those Spell directly after like swift glintstone shard will skip the prepairing time of the followed spell and let it start directly at second combo position, as if you have already casted it before and doing a flow combo.

[@tyrusdalet]

This also works with Incantations when using Catch Flame! The number of skips you can do is less though, I’ve only got it to work so far with Magma Breath and Black Blade. However with Magma Breath, if you cast Catch Flame twice OR roll-cast OR sprint cast THEN cast Magma Breath, you skip the ENTIRE dragon head and immediately fire the magma

[@tsukuyomu2313]

@@tyrusdalet yep, but the catch flame can completely cancle the whole casting animation as you mentioned, this is more likely a bug as the magma fired in that way only has the hitting range as same as catch flame. The other way to cancle incantations is to use beastial sling, which can also skip prepartion but will not cause the same issue as catch flame.

[@tyrusdalet]

@@tsukuyomu2313 i found a fun one with double casting Honed Bolt into Black Blade. Works exactly the same, but you don’t jump into the air… but your back does break *a little*

[@terryglover6442]

I use the slicer and troll knights great sword, th slicer takes people off guard when they try to punish you, and with int build it does insane damage

[@phazedkilledyou]

Wish it worked with ashes of war or could combo into ash of war off of it like darkmoon blades special

[@BeastoNinjaGaming]

You can actually hold Azure's staff in your offhand while using Lusat's as your primary stafff for damage, and you will get the the extra cast speed but on Lusat's staff. It will however give the increased FP cost of both staffs

[@natemorrow4388]

@TokyoWraith if it's in your equipment, does it still come with the extra fp cost demerit?

[@Sl1pperybastard]

@@natemorrow4388 I believe so.

[@amp9216]

@TokyoWraith I just got finished testing this for staffs and I don't see any changes unless the staffs are in my main and off hand Are you on pc or console they might have different bugs

[@Ryder056]

@TokyoWraith but staff with increased gravity damage needs to be held in hand for extra damage, even if you use 2nd staff to launch spells

[@Cookiemunster779]

Wait what’s the point then? Does it give the bonus even if you can’t use Azur’s stave/ not enough int?

[@MysticYT925]

As a faith user and a fellow caster, I find that just the Icon alone makes spamming catch flame even more insane. Also it doesn’t seem to do much for the dragon spells so it seems to line up with your findings here. Happy casting fellow mages and priests!!

[@TheKupidonyx]

What about flame sling?

[@MysticYT925]

@@TheKupidonyx not much better then catch flame besides the black flame variant is infinitely better. unless you mean how it gets affected by the cast time then the black flame version sees an ok increase in speed. my guess is that flame sling is the same.

[@TheKupidonyx]

@@MysticYT925 yep i'm just starting, will replace flame sling by the black flame, tnnx

[@TheGoofyBeater]

Definitely helps with the dragon spells, I found for my fight against the dragonlord without radagons icon I was casting rotton breath after walking out of his lightning and I wouldn't have enough time to get out of the follow up one but with the icon I was able to just get out of it in time.

[@MysticYT925]

@Ivelios Xilosient on top of dealing damage on hit like any other spell it also applies a damage over time effect that deals damage based on a % of the enemies max HP making it super good against bosses.

[@gshorter]

This was very helpful. Now I can definitely set up my build properly. Also looking forward to the talk on staffs. Love the videos from y’all!

[@RageGamingVideos]

Really glad to be of help!

[@Plusimurfriend]

Best staff is lusat then the academy boss soul staff.

[@Bacbi]

@@Plusimurfriend the rennala scepter?

[@Plusimurfriend]

@@Bacbi yes

[@dynamicvoltage9765]

Yeah, I now know to respec my character and take out the 15 points of dex and put it into other stats, because casting .0001% faster is useless

[@ZombiBatz]

This is a great video talking about Cast Speeds! If I may be so bold, I'm actually working on a video myself on a certain interaction with Chain Casts that allow you to cast spells and cancel them MUCH faster then if you normally cast them. Would it be possible for you guys to take a look at that video when it's out and perhaps make your own? It's a very fun PvP tech and I want to see more people use it!

[@RageGamingVideos]

Ooo that is interesting, I'd love to see it!

[@user-fr1pf6dr4w]

Who cares. Spend your life well, not pathetic

[@duskdeadman4333]

Gotta see this

[@ZombiBatz]

@@RageGamingVideos Thanks for showing interest! The video is live now if you'd like to take a look!

[@marco9810]

@@user-fr1pf6dr4w "who cares"..... well you took your time to reply to his comment bozo

[@gianghuynh9570]

The delayed Glintblade spell works extremely well with cast speed. You can charge it to the max very quickly with just Radagon. This spell is useful in many situations especially in PVP when you can trip up the opponents even more with speed cast, since they cannot predict the time the blade will fly out.

[@reitchvonlagura1129]

I spam this spell alot with input reading enemies

[@TheJackMouse]

Couldn’t find a good definitive test of this anywhere else. Phenomenal work and great explanation/demonstration, you got no idea how much time/frustration you saved.

[@hauntedconstellations6039]

I think another important aspect to explore on this subject is how casting speed affects being able to chain into melee attacks, jumping, and dodges

[@Aetrion]

In the Dark Souls games the faster casting items just added "virtual dexterity" to your character, so they simply upped the dexterity for cast time calculations. That meant you didn't get any benefit from them once you hit the cap. Good to know that they actually still do something in this one.

[@DemoniteBL]

The system in DS was way better though, here it seems like the devs were on crack when designing it. lol

[@Distractd1]

Just the video I've been waiting for. This really explained a lot. It's really hard to notice just how much faster you're casting with these equips.

[@Mikey-ve6wd]

This makes so much more sense to me now. I was working with spells the other day and wondering why Azur's Comet wasn't really affected by Azur's Glintstone Staff. I felt the speed increase for my smaller spells like Glinstone Arc and Beastial Sling but all of my larger ones felt almost like they didn't benefit at all. Edit: Some of what I learned. You can bypass spell start up with the symbol by chaining other spells with the same symbol or chaining after a spell that has "can be cast without delay after an action". Night Shard can be cast without delay and let me bypass Glinstone Arc's start up. As long as I continued casting spells with the same symbols, the startup was always ignored. Beastial Sling also has "can be cast without delay after an action". In the case of beastial sling I bypassed the start up for Lightning Strike depite the two not sharing the same symbol. I also found, chaining Sorceries into Incantations and vice versa wasn't possible. Not effectively. Even using spells with "can be cast without delay after an action". I haven't tested chaining spells with "Allows 1 follow up action after" yet though so it might still be possible. Final Note: Spells with "can be cast without delay after an action" can be cast in the air and while on Torrent's back at full sprint.

[@skyacaniadev2229]

Also, from the game dev perspective, the cast speed is applied to the animation playing speed of certain animation clips. And frame rate will also play a role if we dive this deep with this level of precision, since the game core logical loop is not temporally continuous, most game logics only run once per frame.

[@TheGamingDavester]

Good to know that running 40 DEX and Radagon's Icon has me around a decent speed reduction

[@Happyfoam-lw3yt]

What about your INT though? 40 DEX is wicked high for a spellcaster.

[@sagi5826]

i also run 40 dex with 70 int i use both katana and staff

[@Asriel_Cypher]

@@Happyfoam-lw3yt You can easily reach level 150 if you spent all of the Rememberance as well as duplicating them. Since you hardly ever going to use them anyway for a Mage. Most of the spells are... Unusable from the Rememberance as a Sorcerer except for Renalla.

[@alondor8157]

@@Happyfoam-lw3yt Keep in mind. int/dex build is insanely strong for the moonveil. I run this build. And all my int spells are supported by it. Glint pebble for spamming at ranged or runners or keeping distance. Magic shield, which acts like barricade, but also increases magic res dramatically. Carion slicer for rapid upclose damage if you get the opportunity. carion greatsword is amazing for roll catching. And the rest of my damage is just with the katana, and moonveils special. For big damage if theirs an opening.

[@Happyfoam-lw3yt]

@@Asriel_Cypher I know, I'm level 150 and I pretty much only had enough levels to pump INT, VIT, and END. I only had enough levels left to meet the requirements for Moonlight, let alone 30 levels to pump into DEX.

[@chrismanuel9768]

It's like a fighting game. Startup. Active frames. Recovery. Cast speed affects active frames and recovery, but startup remains unchanged which makes sense from a fairness perspective. Everyone gets the same amount of time to recognize the spell. But then it might come out WAY faster. This also serves to make the sped up portion feel better and faster, because it's still being witnessed after the original startup. My assumption would be that faster casting "weaker" spells that come out quicker have less startup frames and do the cast speed increase is noticeable for more of the total cast time

[@danielm7875]

The time and effort it must have taken for you to put this together has got to be ridiculous. Awesomeness! Subscribed

[@Psyopcyclops]

I hope you guys are having a lot of fun making these videos, because DAMN are you working hard on getting them out quickly, and at high quality

[@iteration2]

When talking about speed increases and dps, stacking cast time reductions doesn’t get diminishing returns even though it’s multiplicative because the value of each percentage point of reduction increases exponentially as you approach zero. For example, reducing time from 1 second to .5 seconds is a 100% dps increase. But then you only need to go down another .16666 seconds to get another 100% dps, then go down another .083 seconds to get another 100% dps. Using multiplicative stacking, instead of adding all sources and then multiplying, is done to compensate for that exponential increase in value, so that you get a flat dps increase.

[@Reece8u]

The diminishing returns comes from the cast animation that isnt shortened, since its only the startup that gets reduced. if a 2 second spell is 50% start up and 50% animation, reducing the cast time by 50% would reduce it to 1.5 seconds (assumidly, unless the reduction is based on the entire spell but only applied to the startup)

[@biasmushroom6311]

If speed doesn’t matter you can go for a strength, incantation build as their is a catalyst that scales off of strength and Faith and is nice and I’ve added some faith spells to my strength build and it helps

[@Iqjaahbssbsjaj]

This makes me feel good about using my samurai as a mage since I don’t want to start another class.

[@akumafuhen]

Running azurs staff on my moonlight gs battlemage and it's really noticeable on all the sword spells I love it. But again I'm a more in your face mage not glass cannon mage.

[@aldenmonzon8594]

Seems like the cast speed mechanics are still wonky , especially on greater spells. One would think dex and cast speed should have greater and more noticeable effect on spells that require longer wind up time.

[@HeadlessZombY]

because these spells tend to not be comboable, the cast time only applies to charging times, and so for the majority of the spell the damage isn't increased.

[@umbraasura3409]

The reason for different casting speeds is because the charge time of Lorettas greatbow is not affected by casting speed, that's all

[@bazenga82]

So in order to get to 10% faster casting speed, Use Radagon's Icon and get to about 25 or so Dexterity?

[@nightshadeii9248]

Correct. Over 20 Dex for sure, 25 to be sure.

[@SEANTHEMOST]

But is that really worth it on a full blown mage build 🤔

[@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow]

@@SEANTHEMOST even more so, I’m playing with quite a bit of cast speed, the amount of times I thought I was dead (so many times) like literally frame perfect dodges, casting is way too slow not to invest, it will increase the success rate of your magic for sure

[@bazenga82]

@@SEANTHEMOST To get that increased casting speed with just the Radagon's Icon and + 15 points into Dex to hit 25. Sure. Assuming you rolled a Wretch.

[@bobbobby475]

It also depends what spells your usually casting and of you're spamming them. The bigger spells don't benefit too much and some spells don't benefit at all.

[@LandinngGear]

For me, I found the Graven-School Talisman so much sooner than the Radagon Icon, but I tested both talismans on the vulgar militia in the Caelid region. I went with the metric of time to kill and found at my level that the Radagon icon was almost 2 seconds faster

[@nagginsnuggets9424]

I use the graven Mass talisman and the Radigon Icon together, Works great

[@davidmjdeutsch]

Great video. I'm a level 198 pure INT Confessor trying to beat Consort Radahn for a month now. I put 9 points into Dex, but considering respec'ing to 25 Faith so I can buff with Golden Vow. I would keep using Radagon's Icon. I'm getting good damage with off-hand Staff of Loss paired with Lusata's using Night Comet. I only have 2 Larval Tears left and want to make the right call (I could pull some points from Endurance or Mind, but I really like having lots of Stamina and Light Roll and need the FP to use with Lusata).

[@ZephyrusAsmodeus]

Glad for the info, my friend and I just had a conversation about this yesterday, I'm a battle mage and he's a str faith user, we both use greatswords (I also use the Astel curved sword) so cast speed is pretty important to both of us, good to have a reasonable approach to take with it👍

[@TheRealTanSeeker]

Now that I'm seeing it in slow motion, magical bow looks pretty epic, haha

[@anthonypittman6443]

Wish it had the same kind of affect on incantations honestly

[@syn010110]

having the radagon icon is the difference between adula's blade flinch-locking enemies and not

[@omaralajmi1551]

General rule for you fellow Tarnishers.... I just hit level 204 in my NG first run ( Only killed 4 Demi-Gods so far , so i did a spare time on Boosting my character ). Generally what you want to do as a Mage Build , me personally i was a Mage Build untill exactly level 180... And my Tips are : 1- Dont use Azur's Staff its Pointless ( You are Likely to loose Damage for just a mere Casting speed and the 25% Extra FP Cost is Bullocks its meaningless literally ). What you should do is Carian Regal Scepter untill you get a Massive FP Pool ratio later on , in which where Lusat's staff gets Handy for Better damage which is Worth it later on on the Long-Run. ( Basically any character Level 200+ use Lusat's Staff so long as your Mind is atleast 40+ ). 2- This is the most important Part here... ( Stick Radagons Icon in a Talisman Slot untill you Hit up a very High Level Cap of 180+ *Which is atleast 48 Dexterity* , in doing so your Dex at 48 exactly its already a Natural 10% Casting Speed which then later you Could/Can Sacrifice Radagon's Icon since at this Point your pretty much a Dex/INT Hybrid Class like what i'm doing ). Taking Radagon's Icon out is not a big Lose , since its just a 8% Cast Speed compared to the 10% Cast Speed from the 48 Dex Attribute.... This means you Sacrifice Radagon's Icon Slot for the Mass Graven Talisman of a 8% Sorcery Damage Increase. ( With Carian Regal Scepter at +10 you should be Hitting as Hard as Lusat's Staff +10 within the Same Casting Speed at Dex 48 ). This also means you could Negate the Extra FP consumption from Lusat's Staff aswell for a Casual Sorcerer not a Nuke Sorcerer , but eitherway you should Prioritize 70 INT atleast hitting Level 140 and at Level 180+ you also pump Dex upto 48 for the Extra 10% Cast Speed. ( Do note that Spells like Carian Slicer and Swift Glintstone Staff gets a much Higher DPS with this Cast Boost of 10% from 48 Dex , and you could always switch up Radagon's icon or put something else entirely even not equipping Azur's Staff as by this Point his staff is useless ). 3- Here's an Overall look of my Character at Level 180 exactly ( Vigor 52 , Mind 30 , Endurance 30 , Strength 20 , Dexterity 48 , Intelligence 70 , Faith 18 , Arcane 10 ). Decently great HP at 52 Vigor you are at 1750 HP exactly , 30 Mind is 160 FP , 30 Endurance is 125 Stamina and also decent enough Equip Load that you dont need any Equip Load Talisman , 48 Dex is a nice Cast Speed and a Huge great Keen buff for my Nagakiba Main Katana weapon , at 70 INT you access all Sorcery Spells and 18 Faith is a great Baseline of Faith.... ( For now i got upto level 204 i also put more Mind level and Faith with abit of Vigor at a Hardcap of 60 ). at 70 INT your Carian Regal Scepter should be at a 330 Sorcery Scaling which is pretty nice , whatever comes Extra later put into 80 INT for the Hardcap. ( Talisman Slots are Radagon's Soreseal , Dragoncrest Shield Talisman +2 , Turtle Neck Talisman and Graven-Mass Talisman for a extra 8% Sorcery Damage ). My Final Tips are , i ended up Respecing my first initial Build where i thought Strength and INT would go well... But it turns out the Best Magic Hybrid Build is definitely Dex with INT while also having great Vigor HP , Mind FP and Endurance for Stamina and Equip Load. And most likely this Build shines really well at Exactly level 180+ being a Hybrid Dex Assassin or Samurai with a Katana , Shield , Bow and with Magical Staff and also an Incantation Seal. ( Basically at Level 180 my character is Fully strong in Melee weapon range , Ranged Spells and Incantations , with a Decent good Physical Shield and a Bow aswell ). So i'm technically a 2 Class Build character with this Build , and Casting Spells are very fast... Naturally having 10% from the 48 Dex is insane , and even if you want more you could always switch Talisman for Radagon Icon making the Casting Speed being very Swift at an increase of 18% Cast Speed this is without having Azur's Staff aswell since its not that great. ( Carian Regal Scepter and Lusat's Staff are the Best in the Game imo and best Scaling aswell... It just depends wether you want to be FP Efficient with Regal Scepter , or a strong Caster at the Cost of more FP with Lusat's Staff ). And now with the New Patch 1.03 , most Spells got Reduced FP Cost so having Lusat is Viable and unlike before... So its pretty worth it to have as Alternative Nuke option for a Mage indeed. Goodluck hope this Helps 😅💯

[@andrewmarceau422]

Love the humor in these videos. Well done.

[@deusvult5738]

you can use radagon's icon and the dex increase talisman for an overall 10% increase, and it also allows you to use weapons like wing of astel at exactly 17 dex.

[@JackVelladeath]

Start as a wretch. 70 dex puts you at 61 60 intelligence puts you at 111 (kama hama ha spell ftw) Then you have 39 to 49 points to put into mind, health or what not and everything will be at 10 atleast. You'll easily be a very fast somewhat strong level 150 to 159 wizard Harry.

[@JackVelladeath]

150 to 159 for the pvp xD

[@jamesmartinez2389]

Terrible build. Why would a caster have more dex than int? Especially at RL150.

[@MrAatami]

40 dex and a talisman should put you on max cast speed as the talisman increases virtual dex for spells by 30, so 70.

[@andrei-cezarbleaje5519]

this is what i did on my first build .

[@25Dzone]

I don't plan to use spells until my next play through but god damn well done with this video - so much testing that could've been avoided but I won't groan too much because I know this is actually more information than they usually give in Souls games, haha

[@Bakeddru]

Are you going to start a new character for it? I figure i can respec for a while but recently got into duel wielding the colossal weapons and damn its juicy

[@25Dzone]

@@Bakeddru Duel wielding colossal weapons........... why did you put this idea into my head. I've started warrior and that is now my goal - hot damn that sounds fun. Although I do wanna keep playing and New Game+ it etc I kinda love the idea of starting with a club as a wretch and ending up a wizard 😂 (it's also my first real attempt at a Souls game, so I'm having way too much fun lol)

[@Bakeddru]

@@25Dzone its a thing of beauty you do a lot of jumping L1 hits. Theres so much variety in this game i love it i think im 60 hours in and dont think im close to the end i need to explore everything

[@KKKuma]

For the staff I have compared some of them. Not counting the Prince of death staff (which scale with int and faith and it suck if you divide the stat for both i.e. only good when you have both int and faith at ridiculously high level that you no longer be able to PVP or you can but have no HP/FP/Stamina), for 80 int 1. Lusat Staff 413 magic- the best but not really worth it because you have the second 2. Relana Staff 373 - this one is the one, it only lose to Lusat about 10% damage but you don't pay 25% extra FP cost so it is more effective. I am not sure what "boosting all sorcery" supposed to be but it is not really effecting much. Only the magic stat that is the factor here 3. Crystal Staff 367- This one lose to Relana about a few percent but you don't have to use her rememberance for that (however I don't think you want full moon when dark moon is straight up better). This boost crystal spell but most of them suck for the Damge/FP ratio so it is almost non-relevant. but if you use crystal spell like crystal soulstreams it is the one 4. Azure Staff 362- This doesn't scale that well and you pay FP cost. 5. Carian Staff 329 - It is close enough to to azure and crystal (losing 10% dmg), and it boost carian spell (and you can use it on off hand with other staff and still get the boost) Other staves I have no interest much since they already have worse scaling at the beginning.

[@tobias1990]

Little confused here about the recommended 10% casting speed sweet spot. Since if the talisman + staff = about 8% each but 14% together. Then with dex at 48 being 10% why would you factor in 48 dex + talisman at that point? Wouldn't that make the 48 dex + Talisman = around 15-16%? So in that case without running the numbers my guess is just for the 2% increase from dex with the talisman to get 10% wouldn't at most about 20-25 dex be enough? Great vid and info overall though

[@RiotK0]

this guy is smart as heck.

[@Aurwenn]

Yes 20 dex is enough

[@dienzer9098]

Not just that, but also since there are three separate factors: dex, radagon and the staff that can affect the speed. We still don't know which of the three will be held as the base for the percentage reduction. Because there are 2 scenarios. One being the best where the game takes and puts in the 10 or 20% raw speed reduction and then based on that diminished number , apply radagon and the staff. The last two' order doesn't matter. The second one , which is the worst case scenario is if the game takes either one of the staff or radagon as base to reduce the 8% percentage from, and then reduce it by another 8% based on that diminished number, and that finally using the 20% on that 14%. which will make the dex buff almost negligible.

[@ANDELE3025]

Get anywhere between 20-40 dex up to preference (no more than 40) and Icon. Icon is fake 30 dex in terms of cast speed, Staff is 40 dex worth of it.

[@josemg14]

I have 2 characters and I always find lots of PVP at 120 but not that much at 150, not outside of the hot PVP areas at least.

[@DeepBoxGames]

I really appreciated this video!

[@Crazy_Gamer_OG]

Seems like using the slot for another damage increasing talisman would be better than having slightly faster cast speed.

[@truman3047]

6:20 this is actually a more important point than you realize, as that's the case for many incantations, like lightning spear.

[@JayDabs420]

You can charge lightining spear as well some other incants

[@alexparker4806]

Do you happen to know if this applies to ash of war cast time in any way? And if not, does anything affect it?

[@RageGamingVideos]

Sadly not, Ash of War time is fixed as far as we know.

[@alexparker4806]

@@RageGamingVideos dang, was really hoping i could make hoarfrost spam even more busted. Thanks for the reply

[@danielengler8407]

As an extension of this I was wondering if it effects the unique skills like on the sword of night and flame as the weapon description seems to suggest they are spells of some kind? Any help would be appreciated as I can't find any info on this

[@senji8583]

Thank you. 1:45 is exactly how i feel when game doesn't give numbers, might as well write "This attribute makes you stronger." Testing attacks for hours is no my idea of enjoying the game. But this video doesn't test dexterity agains soft caps i think 20/60/80, and based on another video - dex 60 is the sweet spot (30+Radagon Icon.)

[@matheus-il]

I will tell you why your content is the best about elden ring: it has content! It sounds redundant but "the videos are worth watching". Tks for all the tips, your channel helps a lot!

[@daviddobarganes9115]

Very rare that a mechanics video answers every single one of my questions

[@daviddamasceno6063]

Thanks a lot. I already have my build set, but had no idea what to do with the extra points I'm getting. I think investing in dex for a minor cast speed increase won't help me as much as I was expecting. Better use those points for more vitality. Thanks a lot for your hard work!

[@CitAllHearItAll]

this says if you're just firing a single spell it doesn't matter, but the staff + talisman shot first. The start time stays the same, but the number of frames it takes before releasing the spell reduces. So it's still helpful with a single fire.

[@hunterbleakwoods9759]

i've been wondering about casting speed, haven't checked the numbers my self but glad someone is looking at it.

[@ZeroSeriesMMX]

When Elden Ring met Ragnarok Online. This is a gem, Josh, how would you like to do an updated version of this in 1.05, since 1.04 sped up casting of many spells, incantations and skills, IIRC? 😁 Again, many thanks for this gem.

[@mj2carlsbad]

Sweet jesus just give me the data and spare me the bad humor

[@Sett86]

Actually, the added benefit of the items is EXACTLY the same whether you stack them or not, it's 8% better to have it than not to, in both cases. It's the same for armor in DotA. The numbers may seem to diminish but +20 armor gives your the exact same amount of effective HP whether your base is 2 or 200.

[@danielguglielmo4301]

Dude you are the fucking man, I know just how much work this was and have a pretty damn good idea of just how long it must have taken you to crunch all the numbers, collect the footage, create the commentary, edit it all, polish and then polish again, then to publish it, making sure that it wasn't too logistical/spouting raw data, to keep it interested (which the voice definitely adds a great touch a flair,you really have a solid formula down my man 👍) that it would deter people's short attention spans (speaking in generality of course because, let's face it, this IS a video gaming community, not a university calc class after all), and I say I understand all of this because I myself began working out all of this data before coming across your video (which felt like a damn godsend after several hours and charts later of comparing several spells with different varying factors, such as you did too) and I was burnt out after just 3 hours and I only got 3 spells compared completely with their varying factors AND having confirmed my findings, with many more to go... So seriously, when I tell you I understand the amount of work you put into this, please know that I absolutely mean it when I say that dude, YOU ARE THE FUCKING MAN, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR BREAKING YOUR BALLS TO BRING US THIS INFO!!! And I really hope that everyone can appreciate your work and outstanding findings. I have a feeling if the devs watched this, they themselves would be impressed too and would be laughing as it was probably a long running team headache/joke during their long crunch times trying to polish this system up for launch with the massive amount of convolution and whatnot that this whole system is grounded in... I mean to have the fundamental basis of the whole program run this way... They must have a pretty long formula which their algorithm is running off of. After being exposed to the bones and foundation of it all, I have completely changed my tune personally from feeling like it was a broken and insanely bad system, thinking it was almost even due to laziness or focus being placed elsewhere, which felt disappointing obviously, to now seeing that with the amount that could have gone wrong, it's a miracle it runs as smooth as it does! Anyway, good damn job brotha, keep dropping this kind of content PLEASE, quality like this seems far and few between these days. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@AlexanderForsman]

The staff has also been reported speeding up incantations, without increasing their costs.

[@sydanthay2172]

"Gotta hit that 10 min mark for getting some monetization, so lets just bark unnecessary shit for the first 10 min..." THIS DUDE.

[@anlak1318]

If I'm correct, soft cap is 50 in dex with the talisman, because talisman gives you 30 dex, only for casting speed

[@zyfryth]

This is very informative. So considering how often we do dodge roll -> cast once -> dodge roll -> cast once. Essentially we don't need any casting speed whatsoever...

[@basebrown]

Stop talking, start informing please

[@TheRewasder97]

You could invest some points into dex to be able to use a dex weapon, like moonveil, as a backup for when running out of magic juice.

[@johnhummel99]

Moonveil is int not dex for dex use any weapon where the main stat is dex like b scaling on deaths poker

[@TheRewasder97]

@@johnhummel99 moonveil is like 18 dex min, so you need to invest a bit there to use it with any caster class

[@LeTtRrZ]

I would like to see the staff comparison video you have planned. I’ve heard that the Lusat staff is bugged and does not actually increase sorcery damage past basic scaling. That means the extra 50% cost is completely wasted while using that staff.

[@nunyabidnis7111]

Seems like the 10% faster cast speed really only makes a difference if you're sitting and just spamming spells consecutively, a situation that I imagine rarely occurs in actual gameplay. And if for whatever reason you do have the luxury to do nothing but spam casts, you're probably safe enough that you could do without the investment needed to up casting speed.

[@jordangiles7223]

You're a real MVP for taking the time to make this

[@HuslWusl]

This video is really nice and I can't imagine the time it took to get these numbers, since it's percentage based, it's better to test it with long cast times as the difference would be more clear.

[@anriofasausage2282]

This video dank af, anything with info about cast speed gives me a chub. Info with elden ring so far has just been guesses based on ds3 mechanics, nice to see some actual facts coming out.

[@johnfarmer1438]

Ok just from the beginning, first video ever…I like this guy 😂😩 idk if it’s bc I’m stoned out of my mind but the way he speaks in this video is keeping me so interested and entertained I have watched this twice now.

[@johnfarmer1438]

Ok so if I get this talisman, and want to run a magic samurai build…how much do I put into dex🤔

[@Quadraginta1337]

Putting in the Radagon Icon makes Wrath of Gold a split second faster. That split second makes a HUGE difference. I basically have Dark Souls 1 Wrath of the Gods again.

[@stonebeard2194]

This is rad it reminds me of learning frame data in fighting games, startup recovery, and active frames etc…

[@jayparish7588]

Great video! Just wanted to say that having a screenshot of the talisman and staff you're showing the location of at a low opacity over the top of the footage was a good touch! Would love to see you do the same or something similar in your showcase type videos!

[@dontowelie1302]

The staff and icon are 10% "Haste", so you cast 10% more pebbles in the same time. Before 1 in 3,85 After 1,1 In 3.85

[@freezerain]

I believe the difference of benefit from cast speed is not from hidden multilicator but from ratio of opening-closing animation to casting animation, the one you can actually affect with cast speed. Spells with longer "active" stage that you can speed up will benefit more if back to back casting.

[@ICA_Ghost]

6:19 it really seems like the start up is faster though with higher cast speed. if they go off at the same time its pretty clear.

[@Weerknuffelbeer]

It seems to me like almost every individual spell is affected differently by cast speed. Try out Bestial Sling, Beast Claw and Stone of Gurranq for example, the cast speed increase between 10 dex with nothing and 40 dex + Radagon Icon is MASSIVE. To the point that it turns Beast Claw from borderline unuseable into a quite decent combo tool from Bestial Sling. And chain casting Stone of Gurranq makes you feel like a tennis ball cannon. I almost feel like the Clawmark Seal should've scaled with Dex instead of Str and I'm almost certain the Dex cast speed increase for bestial incants is the reason that both Cinqueda and the Beastclaw Greathammer have decent Dex scaling.

[@AgentSapphire]

Cast time affects the dragon breath differently. It shortens the time before the dragon head comes out.

[@thomasbrand2650]

This was useful. I brought my dex up to 25 for my prisoner. I knew I needed it up some at least for the rapier. I've been dumping everything else into intelligence lately for all the big spells, but I find myself mostly using rock sling. It does good damage, fairly cheap FP, but it can be a little slow when trying to run and gun. So I've been trying to decide if I should still keep pumping my int up to 60 or if I should put a few more levels into dex. Now I know to keep working my int, ty.

[@Raven17778]

Great explanation! Finally a good guide for this!

[@MAThompson08]

6:46 This was incredibly helpful for my build❤

[@CharlesChristena]

The 'Fuck, I have no mana.' animation has killed me more times than Melania, and the Elden Beast combined.

[@greenrabbit860]

So the stacks act like reverse compound interest. While the percentage you get is based on how my money you have, the reduction is also based on the number you are at when you equipe the talisman/staff.

[@endolasguillotine8782]

i'm just capturing that y'all are going hard on elden ring, since i didn't watch/searched any elden ring content due to spoilers for my first playthrough (obviously) also very glad that you guys got on the souls train like that, i hope it helps the channel out a lot since souls will practicaly never realy die.

[@zolizoli197]

The way it works is that you got this invisible number called virtual dex which off of scales spell casting speed, it's hard cap is I believe it to be at 60, tho I heard some say it 70 but whatever, after you hit this cap you won't be casting any faster, so increasing it further it pointless. This number is made up of two parts your initial real dex stat which you can see on your stat screen ofcourse, and whatever boost you get on top of it, both the talisman and the staff increases it by 30, so if you have 30 dex and use either one of them you reached the cap, or by using both of them you always at the cap. After checking the new amulet, it apparently caps your virtual dex at max 99, so instantly giving you max cast speed, I assume the point of it being you can go on and have nothing on, dex without the extra cost benefits of levels or mana. Hard to say it worth it with the amount of extra damage you take.

[@zolizoli197]

Generally speaking BTW, getting 30 dex and using either the staff or the talisman is the best option, tho I heard there is some new kind of talisman in the dlc, which I not yet got my hands on, and that might use some different principal.

[@silverstryker21]

Question from a 1st run faith builder: From the times, it seems like there is an unequal boost between a 'melee-based' spell casting time and the large damage spells, aoe, etc.. It seems like it would be a decent hunch that Dex buffs melee casting times more than spell casting times. That sounds like it SHOULD make sense, but its Elden Ring too idk.

[@IchigoKurosaki10]

My guy here doing the lord's work for the Mages guild of Elden ring! thanks a lot for the great work!

[@ForestX77]

So what I gathered is if you are playing as a actual mage/caster radagon’s icon and if you are playing as int/dex go for the dex soft cap.

[@alhajiusmanharuna8913]

Dr. Tumba the Great Spell, is always come First in all spell coasters thanks for all you have done for me

[@CaptToilet]

Makes me glad I went faith. Don't have to worry about cast time, just chuck that lightning spear and then buff my claymore with holy goodness.

[@coda-shut-up4477]

I’m glad that josh had the will to do this because god this helped.

[@ImMaramAtt]

If all these options don't impact the start up of the first spell then It's safe to say none of them is worth it in PvP as you're most likely are going to shoot only 1 spell at a time while dodging and moving. Thanks for the video!

[@Cbb3225]

A counter though is if you play aggressive with your psyhcic and use limitless fp for 10 secs. Like specifically spamming stars of ruin, and that will guarantee damage even if they know how to roll avoid it

[@charlesduke9750]

Well the video was supposed to explain the effect of Dex on casting, I expected a recommendation on Dex investment, but it ended up speaking mostly of the talisman and in the end got confusing like the conclusion seems to be nothing is worth it. I'm sure that is not the case but it is what the video conveys.

[@thundertwonk1090]

This video was absolutely magical

[@gabrielphillips5338]

Looking at the footage you have it, seems like the bigger heavier spells get less of a percentage increase from cast time buffs because more of a percentage of the spell is spent in the windup portion which isn't affected by cast time buffs. Its not the developers saying bigger splashier spells should be less impacted, its the developers giving each spell unique frame data and deciding the telegraphing portion of the spell should always have the same timing.

[@jr_cinnamons]

Really appreciate this vid. Working on a Alucard looking Battle Mage. Currently lv 94 Wretch with 22Vig/30Mnd/16End/12str/14Dex/45Int/24Fth Just beat the first two main Stormveil bosses (I got out the tutorial and just hit the open world then grinded lol). About to go training some more so I go just play the game through with the vision I have for my character. Been thinking about raising Dex, but this vid shows I can just put those points somewhere else. I'll be looking forward to the staff vid. Story/build wise I'm going Prince of Dark staff, but I'm open to changing that depending on your results

[@erthan6161]

From what I understand (and take this with a grain of salt because my research mainly comes from comments in similar videos) Cast speed basically soft caps at 70 dex. Radagons icon provides a bonus equivalent to 30 dex. From your testing I would suspect that the staff is also equivalent 30 dex. So stacking the two with even a middling amount of dex would hit the soft cap right away. This would make using those two together very useful at low level but as your build progresses you can drop one (the staff) and eventually shoot for 40 dex paired with radagons. I imagine most sorcerers will have that as they want to use moonveil but maybe a pure sorc would rather have azur's staff in their offhand + radagons + 10 dex.

[@Leukodystrophy]

In the comparison between Talisman+Azur+99Dex VS 99 Dex, it really looks like the left side video started the cast first. Maybe I'm crazy but I'm fairly certain the virtual dex the staff and talisman give you count towards the 70 dex cast speed cap. This is how it worked in the previous titles anyways. I may be wrong.

[@shadearca]

That is correct there is another vid that confirms that for casting speed dex caps at 70. No true caster build can afford dex above 20-25 while being between 120-150 lvl for pvp so it does not really matter.

[@edrussell8650]

As a mathematician turned attorney, bravo 👏🏽. Design of Experiments would say that if there are spells that take longer, like Loretta’s, there is a mechanism that can’t be edited by the attributes you are modifying. (For example, Have you tried adding any bow talismans to the test?) You are answering questions that many mages are asking but simply don’t have the technology to answer. Research is pointless without analytics. I’m very interested in the teaser for the best staff analysis! If you care, I’m at 175 hours and just completed Ranni’s quest line. It’s almost easy at this point to kill mini bosses except of course for Crucible Knights. Why god and all that is holy are they a thing?

[@a-a-ron9027]

thanks a bunch for this, radagon's icon didn't talk to me either

[@bp5739]

Thanks for clarifying this.

[@theeabo]

haha " I will tell you nothing" Love that outfit " I must have it!

[@senakashi1897]

Been only using the tailsman since I got. Was think at adding a few point in Dex (20). Bur great work in putting the time to do all the math and frames counts. Love all the videos.