Gannar Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Hello! Just a couple questions: 1. Does anyone happen to know/have a link to a chart that details the effects of alacrity? (ex. 5% = .1 second reduction, no idea if this is true or not). Just wondering how much I need to knock off a tenth of a second or two. 2. When I PvP, I usually hover at about 30 stacks of SCG, but I find that I don't utilize them as often as I should. I usually pop it when I need to heal someone quickly and just spam Healing Scan. I very rarely use it with Power Shot or Kolto Missile. Do you think it's more useful to just pop it as soon as you hit 30 and throw out a Missile and a couple PS's, or just save it for when you really need the heals or are trying to take someone down and heat's close to full. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuyTallman Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 2. When I PvP, I usually hover at about 30 stacks of SCG, but I find that I don't utilize them as often as I should. I usually pop it when I need to heal someone quickly and just spam Healing Scan. Blargh! Don't do this, stop it right now! Bad Merc! *rolls up newspaper and glares menacingly* You have 3 points in critical efficiency yes? Alternate your heals then, it is infinitely more efficient even with supercharged gas popped. Healing scan, rapid scan, healing scan, rapid scan, healing scan... until it runs out. Also, if you can place a kolto missile on multiple targets, then yes, the effects are pretty awesome, though from what I have seen it doesn't stack with reactive armor, just overrides it. Someone correct me if wrong on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannar Posted March 13, 2012 Author Share Posted March 13, 2012 Blargh! Don't do this, stop it right now! Bad Merc! *rolls up newspaper and glares menacingly* You have 3 points in critical efficiency yes? Alternate your heals then, it is infinitely more efficient even with supercharged gas popped. Healing scan, rapid scan, healing scan, rapid scan, healing scan... until it runs out. Also, if you can place a kolto missile on multiple targets, then yes, the effects are pretty awesome, though from what I have seen it doesn't stack with reactive armor, just overrides it. Someone correct me if wrong on that. Oh. You're right haha, what I do does build up heat rather quickly. Thanks for the tip! I promise I won't do that again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abelf Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 No set time reduction for alacrity. Whatever % you have of alacrity is the % you subtract from the cast time. 10% alacrity on a 2 sec cast results in a 1.8 sec cast time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onager Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Hello! Just a couple questions: 1. Does anyone happen to know/have a link to a chart that details the effects of alacrity? (ex. 5% = .1 second reduction, no idea if this is true or not). Just wondering how much I need to knock off a tenth of a second or two. 2. When I PvP, I usually hover at about 30 stacks of SCG, but I find that I don't utilize them as often as I should. I usually pop it when I need to heal someone quickly and just spam Healing Scan. I very rarely use it with Power Shot or Kolto Missile. Do you think it's more useful to just pop it as soon as you hit 30 and throw out a Missile and a couple PS's, or just save it for when you really need the heals or are trying to take someone down and heat's close to full. Thank you! Just take the cast time of the ability, and shave 5% of it off. The game doesn't round though the tooltips do. 10% Alacrity, for instance, shaves a tenth of a second off of every second of cast time. 3 second casts become 2.7, 2 second casts become 1.8, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_Pitt Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 (edited) Blargh! Don't do this, stop it right now! Bad Merc! *rolls up newspaper and glares menacingly* You have 3 points in critical efficiency yes? Alternate your heals then, it is infinitely more efficient even with supercharged gas popped. Healing scan, rapid scan, healing scan, rapid scan, healing scan... until it runs out. Also, if you can place a kolto missile on multiple targets, then yes, the effects are pretty awesome, though from what I have seen it doesn't stack with reactive armor, just overrides it. Someone correct me if wrong on that. Heres a a video I made, 17% alacrity. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PVrCJI7dRU&context=C438343aADvjVQa1PpcFOIJcDTeA6UnnpfygSE9APpyq2l79jnLT4= Why must people say alacrity is bad... Bioware put power+alacrity in healing sets for a reason.... *rolls up 1,000 newspapers and beats you to death for your stupidity* Edited March 17, 2012 by Brad_Pitt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannar Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 Thanks for all the responses! Definitely cleared things up for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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