Hi guys - I literally wasted all the zenny I had today trying to increase the Aspd of my shadow chaser (for auto shadow spell)
The first thing I did was buy 2x bradium brooch's for 40mil (20ea). Each one said +2% aspd. I saw my 173 aspd and presumed that i would then get +3.46 aspd for each brooch. However, this turned out to be stupid for two reasons:
1) I forgot that when I was last playing I had grinded and grinded and got myself an advanced flame lord set (a.ror and a.rofl) so i didnt have accessory slots free anyway..
2) I tried the bradium brooches and they did NOT improve my aspd -at all- over what i was getting from the a.fl set. One brooch took me to same aspd as the set, 2nd brooch didnt give enough aspd to raise it any higher.
the 2nd thing I did was get temporal agi boots, "+3% aspd per 3 refine levels" ok! this is plain english, 3% aspd bonus for every 3 refine levels. There is SURELY no other way to read that sentence? I stuck with the flame lord set as brooches were not improving aspd, i equiped my new boots and made +4.
No change. Not a single freaking point of aspd. I'm clearly not understanding this % nonsense but its frustrating because the item descriptions seem very simple. I decided I would go for +6 boots and see if 6% aspd would help... they broke upgrading. Well duh, this is ro - if you havnt rage quit once today you arnt playing right.
So now I'm sat here staring at desktop after my alt+f4 rage quit and wondering, ok, bad luck is one thing - but clearly there is more than that. Either these items are broke or the descriptions are naff and when it says +3% aspd bonus it means something other than... plus three percent. Cuz even if you take your classes base aspd, which is like 146 or something with no modifiers? 3% of 146 is 4.38.
/sob