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[juxtapposed]

What would be the ideal cards to put into sound amps and would not depreciate its price so that it's still possible to resell it in the future?

[Akilez]

KBC

[Kadelia]

Sound amps of mad witch for metallic sound
Nimble sound amps for severe rainstorm
Sound amp under a cast has a use as well.

[juxtapposed]

KBC

  

They're super rare though.

Sound amps of mad witch for metallic sound
Nimble sound amps for severe rainstorm
Sound amp under a cast has a use as well.

I was going to put 2x Scarabas into my Sound Amps but I was thinking that I would have a hard time reselling it in the future.
Question about the Phen Sound Amp, why would you pud a card that reduces the bonus given by the acce? But I If a ranger has a sound amp, wouldn't it be enough cast time reduc for it to cast AS w/o being interrupted?

[MorseCoder]

Variable cast reductions from equipment are multiplicative with reductions from stats and multiplicative with reductions from skills/spells. In order to get instant cast, you need to have 100% reductions from one of the three categories.

 

Let's take the 50% from Sound Amplifier.

Let's assume the character has 140 total DEX (base and bonus) and 70 INT (base and bonus).

Let's assume the character has no reductions from skills/spells.

 

Arrow Storm level 10 has 3.8s VCT.

Variable cast time = 3.8 * (1 - 0.5) * (1 - √[(DEX * 2 + INT) / 530])

Variable cast time = 3.8 * 0.5 * 0.812 = 1.54 seconds

 

Phen would still be useful. It might be better, however, to have the Sound Amplifier without a Phen, start Arrow Storm cast, then switch to a Phen-carded accessory. This way, the full reductions are still taken into account, and the cast is uninterruptible.

[fuyukikun]

marine sphere card. use magnum break if you use fire elemental rainstorm.

[Kadelia]

Phen would still be useful. It might be better, however, to have the Sound Amplifier without a Phen, start Arrow Storm cast, then switch to a Phen-carded accessory. This way, the full reductions are still taken into account, and the cast is uninterruptible.

 

Its more for things with fixed cast time, or on a ranger when you can't wear 2 amps due to white wing set.