Spell details for Haste  

This spell does notmake spell casting faster. It lowers the recast timer on spells. It also makes attack speed faster. I love it when people swear up and down something does what it doesnt do because they believe it does without any proof. Nins hate slow because it greatly increases their recast timer on utsusemi. Try being a nin some time and maybe youd get why.

Does haste also lower the delay on ranged attacks such as attack rate from a bow, or a boomerang?

it doesn't speed up actual spellcasts, only Fast Cast can do that...what Haste _does_ do, however, is reduce recast delay

Does this (and by extension, Hastega) cut down on bloodpact delay?

Also, just for the record, Light Spirit will cast this at level 40. It casts Haste after Shell II, but before Protect II (so it casts Shell II on everybody, then Haste on everybody, then Protect II on everybody). Duration is about 3 or 4 minutes.

Edited, Tue Nov 2 16:50:05 2004

Haste only increases attack speed not casting time
so if your buying it because you want your cast time to be less,dont buy it:)


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while i don't think it has an affect on the cast time for spells(if it does i haven't noticed it), it DOES decrease the recast time on spells. i have a /recast Refresh line in my refresh macro, and when spamming that macro while hasted and unhasted i've seen that the recast time drops from 17 seconds to 14 seconds. its not much, but its handy if your trying to pump out 5 refreshes asap ^^

I was incredibly bored tonight, so I decided to attempt to quantify the effects of this spell.

At the time of the experiment, I had:
40 WHM/20 BLM
Level 99 enhancing skill

I used two weapons for the experiment:
Solid Wand (delay 210)
Holly Staff (delay 366)

I did 20 trials with each combination of haste/no-haste and weapon (solid wand haste, solid wand no haste, holly staff haste, and holly staff no haste). For the solid wand I measured the time betwen each two consecutive strikes with the weapon (timing from flash to flash of the attack) and divided by two; for the holly staff, I measured consecutive strikes.

I was fighting a mixture of bats, rabbits, goblins, sheep, and crabs in Valkurm Dunes.

I won't bore y'all with all the numbers (this post is already going to be long enough...) but the mean times for each combination are (all times are +/- .1 s):

Solid Wand --
Without haste: 3.917 s
With haste: 3.409 s
Delay factor: 87.0%

Holly Staff --
Without haste: 6.674 s
With haste: 5.813 s
Delay factor: 87.1%

As you can see, the delay factor of the two is within the tolerance of the measurement. So, it seems that the delay factor that haste yields is constant in weapon delay, at least when enhancing skill is constant. I'll do this experiment again when my enhancing skill has had some time and levels to improve, and post my results here.

Short version: haste multiplies the attack delay by a constant factor, approximately 87% for me (level 40 WHM, 99 enhancing skill).

Delay is like 100 delay = one sec. So let say 250 delay is 2.5 sec. And so on. Haste does stack with the barb's haste song I am guessing.Hmm monk with all haste stuff subjob drg with those haste earrings. Barb song that increase attack speed and haste magic on. That would be like 100 fist forever.

In 40+ parties I try to have this spell cast on as many as 4 other party members at a time. The goal is that between this and enfeebles your party will build TP very fast, so if you can't manage 4 hasted pt members at least have haste constantly on the melee characters involved in your skillchains.

Again generally speaking I just go down the list of pt members and cast it in sequence, so it's easier for me to keep track of who still needs a Haste tossed their way (it can get confusing if you just wait for the 'X's Haste effect wears off.' message to scroll by in the text window.

If you must prioritize your Haste casting (due to low MP resources, low tank DEF/VIT, bad hate control, etc) I would choose Tank -> melee involved in skill chains -> melee with high-delay weapons (GAXE, GSWD) -> all other melee.

This can take a real toll on your MP so make sure you have juice handy or a RDM to cast Refresh on you.

Don't bother hasting yourself if you're a WHM in a party.

after level 48 things get easier on the WHM, as the RDM can help out with the Haste casting, saving your MP for Regen II.

with a acid dagger and haste i swing every 3 secs

Sold by a lady in Seblina in between the Weavers guild house and the Fishers guild house. Sells for about 20k. There is also a guy who sells blm spells right across from her.

Where do you get it, what drops it, or quest or place that sells it?