COR Haste Roll From The Update.

No.

Ok.

The fact that -delay is calculated separate from haste does make a difference in damage output. That's exactly the point, and what we have been saying...

Just as Nightfyre stated earlier, doing simple math...you can find that: if we add 10% haste to 70% haste, to go from 70% to 80% haste... that is an increase of ~50% in damage, whereas if we add -10% weapon delay, you have to calculate that first and separate from haste. Therefore, the -10% delay is only giving you ~11% increase in DPS.

So, no. Sam/blitz doesn't have the same effect as haste regarding damage output.

On top of that, you're sacrificing 2 Cor rolls, and you need to depend on the storeTP that you may get with sam roll to try to make it so that the -delay doesn't mess with your X-hit build... doesn't sound as efficient as a combo such as chaos/fighter rolls, giving you more attack and double attack, for TP and WS.

Not that much actually since it was figured that any Job ability like a WS gives a fixed 120 delay or 2 seconds. The higher the haste, the more frequent WS is, and the 2 sec delay is hurting you a lot especially if you are a WS heavy job. It would be correct if you didn't use a WS.

Exemple :

Take a 5-hit SAM with 480 delay.
hit > hit > hit > hit > ws > 2 second pause > repeat.

Let say it takes you 0.5 seconds to hit ws macro after your last hit (reflex and time for macro to register). The order is :

hit > delay > hit > delay > hit > delay > hit > 0.5 sec > ws > 2 second delay

*with 70% haste it takes therefore 480*(1-0.7)*3+60+120=612 delay or 10.2 second for one WS phase.
*with 80% haste it takes therefore 480*(1-0.8)*3+60+120=468 delay or 7.8 seconds for on WS phase

So the damage boost from 10% haste would be 612/468= +30% only.

Note : even if your reflex are perfect it would be 35%.

Bump. Would like to see some testing on this roll mixed with Rogue's and Samurai. If you know a web page with this info please let me know.