Rank 5 Load time

Friend just got to rank 5 Mana Crystallization, and the load times are the same as before, with Thunder taking 11 seconds and Ice spear taking 8.5 seconds. Was it changed or what? Does the crystal itself need to be over 5 along with the skill or something?

Kinda annoyed that all this time was spent getting to rank five with absolutely no cool down reduction. Anyone have info on this?

I believe it is the rank of the crystal, not the skill. Produce any r5+ ones yet to test this?

Edit: I just noticed the asterisks under the table...it probably is the rank of the crystal and not the skill.

Hmm...We're attempting it now. We make r6 IS crystals while I'm in transform, so I'm getting ice mastery up a few ranks and grabbing some more int. If you don't even need the skill to r5, that's....very confusing kinda. I'll post once we test it for certainty (both with and without r5 of the skill) to post if the crystal and/or the skill have to be r5. It's a little misleading with a quick glance at the chart.

How do the asterisks point to needing an r5 of the crystal though? I thought it was only to mention it's the load time of the crystal and not the production time of creating the crystal.

Thank you for the quick info.

“	Load Time refers to using crystals, not creation.	„

figured loading time was based on whatever rank crystal was produced.

Tested with an r2 crystal and r5 Mana Crystallization, with no cast time reduction. Ice spear is still 8.5 seconds.

The wiki's had the cast times like this since the skill came out. I'm a bit depressed seeing it's been...wrong if this is true.

Any other ideas? Alchemists who have achieved r1 on the skill maybe?

II have no idea what it could be then :c I'm not much of an alchemist and I really don't know a lot of people who actually have rank 1, let alone rank 5+.

I have r1 in the skill, and was disappointed with the load times as well. Roughly 2 seconds longer than the times listed, but I'll have to do more accurate testing.

THat might be cause of the Dynamic Combat. Loadtimes got increased/decreased.

I agree with this, as my testing shows that the load time of a magic crystal is dependant on both mana crystalization rank and rank of the crystal. The changes in load times seem to be at the same points as the int magic the crystal is based on. (Eg, fireball load time doesn't change based on crystal rank, but ice spear changes between rank D and C.) I'll collect more data then post results.

This has been happening since at least February of this year (googleing around showed someone else had this glitch/change as well). At rank 5, the load times DO decrease (on ice spear at least), but only partially ( # seconds). I think Thunder and Fireball have a decreased load time as well, but not fully. At R1, the load time doesn't seem to go down any farther sadly...making this potentially useful at r5+ skill quite a bit harder to use.

I'm wondering if this was changed at some point and not mentioned in an update, or if it's just a glitch that's been oversited since almost no one talks about it.

hmm, sounds like a bug then

As per my results posted in a new thread, yeah, rank 5 only shortens load time by 1 second, and r1 by 1 additional second. Of course, you also do a lot more damage too.