Cooldowns for SLAs and sister spells

[Chette]

Greetings spell casters. Up until recently I had a capped Silver Flame Favoured Soul with the free searing light SLA. The cooldown on this SLA was slightly longer than the cooldown on the spell itself. The cooldowns on the SLA and the spell itself were on different timers, as was plainly obvious as I use the UI setting shat shows countdowns on your timers. If I used the SLA, it could have 5 seconds left on its timer and I could freely cast the spell searing light. However, I noticed that if I cast the spell searing light, I could not use the SLA until the timer on the spell was up. Even though no timer appeared on the SLA on my hotbar.

There appears to be a bug where if the spell is timered, the SLA will also become timered, although it does not work in reverse. This was very frustrating for me as a FvS with full smiting enhancements, as I frequently use both the SLA and the spell for light nuking, and this bug results in me not being able to cast the spell as frequently as I would like, as I need to always cast the SLA first. It essentially extends the timer of my spell to the same duration as the SLA. If there were no bug, I might cast the SLA 3 times in 10 seconds, and the spell 5 times (estimating the timers here), instead of casting each 3 times, which is the current situation. If I wish to cast the SLA whenever it is off cooldown, I can not cast the spell any more frequently than the SLA.

I am curious if any of the other caster classes with SLAs have noticed a similar bug with their timers, or if this is limited to Favoured Souls? Also, for Favoured Souls with SLAs for other deities, eg cure light wounds, do you notice a similar timer bug related to your spell?

[Jaid314]

my understanding is that this is the case for other SLAs as well. haven't really tested extensively, but i know people were talking about it for savants, and i believe for archmages as well.

[Chette]

That's a shame, as if I understand correctly SLA cooldowns are about to get extended, which means effectively extending the spell cooldown as well

[Kaeldur]

I haven't noticed because I have CLW on my Favored Soul and I don't actually carry the spell. I don't even remember if I have the spell, if I do I'll check and get back to you on it.

They're increasing our (FvS) capstone SLAs? No!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why????? Sad sad

[Jaid314]

They're increasing our (FvS) capstone SLAs? No!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why????? Sad sad

so far as i know, those are untouched. the ones that are getting changed are the tier 3 elemental savant SLAs, chain missiles (archmage) and arcane blast (archmage).

[Futility]

Sorry to bring the issue up again, but I can confirm the bug with casting SLA and its sister spell still exists.

If SLA is cast first, SLA cooldown is triggered (but not the SPELL one) and you can cast the sister spell right away.

If sister spell is cast, the SPELL cooldown is triggered along with the SLA cooldown (even though, SLA icon doesn't show it), so no SLA can be cast untill the SPELL cooldown timer expired.

Tested with Phantasmal Killer SLA and spell.