Duration add-ons/Spirit
Is running them now more of a hindrance than help? Or am i missing something here?
The supposed “recovery” aspect of the duration add-ons being removed means that running a duration add-on will incur a cooldown that’s longer than 15 secs or am i mistaken?
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correct. Spirit has total duration of 5 seconds and she recharges her power at 0.33 charges per second for total 15 second cooldown.
if you use yellow duration. the total duration will become 6 seconds. 6/0.33 = 18 seconds. you will incur a 3 second longer recharge. The purple add-on increases duration by 3.5. 8.5/0.33 = 25.75 seconds. this is 10.75 second penalty. grey add-on is 16.66. 1.6 second penalty.
The benefit of duration add-on is that you can travel more total distance but speed add-on directly boost your total distance without incur any negative.
Shiawase Amulet and Talisman will still be alright. Since they only increase the duration by 0.5 seconds and 1 second respectively, the additional recharge is only 1.5 seconds and 3 seconds respectively which isn't horrible if you get a hit you wouldn't have gotten without the extra duration. If you don't need the extra duration and don't use it, then the recovery will be the same as without addons.
Yakuyoke Amulet on the other hand, will be pretty bad now since it reduces the phase speed modifier by 15% and no longer makes your power recharge faster, which removes a lot of the value it had before. You can still run a speed addon to offset the penalty, but then you won't be able to use the full 8.5 seconds without a very long recharge time, so you're honestly better off without it. The other option of course is combining it with one of the buffed recharge addons, but then your phase speed is significantly slower. Neither option is worth it imo.