Action Speed

Some information is obsolete as of patch 0.76

Action Speed is the measure of how long any action taken by a player or monster in the HentaiVerse takes. All actions are based on 100 "time units".

Fomula

Base Time Units/Action is calculated as:

minmax(20, 10000 / action_speed, 500)

Action Speed = 100 * Factors

Effects

As battles progress and time units pass, some monsters with higher action speeds may perform an additional attack against the player. Conversely, players who accumulate enough time units due to their high action speed may take a turn to perform an additional action before the monsters are allowed their action.

Base Action Speeds

In this table lower numbers indicate slower actions.

Most spells can have their cast times reduced depending on the number of ability points invested into them.

Action	Base Speed
Basics
Attacking	1.0
Using items	>1.1
Toggling Spirit Stance	>1.0
Skills
Defend, Scan, Focus	1.0
Fleeing	>1.0
Fighting Skills	?
Offensive Spells
T1 Elemental Spells (Inferno, Snowstorm, etc.)	1.0
T2 Elemental (Meteor, etc.)	0.6
T1 Divine/Forbidden (Smite, Corruption)	0.83
T3 Elemental, T2 Divine (Flames of Loki, Banish, etc.)	(1/1.7)?
T2 Forbidden (Disintegrate)	(1/1.4)?
T3 Forbidden (Ragnarok)	(1/1.9)?
Deprecating Spells
Poison, Slow, Weaken, Sleep, Nerf, X-Nerf, MagNet	2.5
Lifestream	1.25
Curative Spells
Cure, Regen	2.0
Supportive Spells
Haste, Shadow Veil, Absorb, Spark of Life, Arcane Focus, Heartseeker, Spirit Shield	10.0
Protection	2.0

• Using powerups always takes 0 time units.

Increasing Action Speed

• Using the Haste spell (50%) or scroll (75%).
• Getting the hath perk Innate Arcana improves a player's action economy by maintaining supportive spells without using actions.
• Using certain weapons such as Daggers and Wakizashi which have innate bonuses to attack speed, especially if they have the "of Swiftness" suffix.
  • Likewise, any melee weapon can gain the Swift Strike potency. This stacks with the above weapon bonuses.
  • Using certain armors that have either "Charged" prefix for casting speed or "Agile" for attacking speed.

Monsters

• All monsters have an initiative for their first attack of 0.1 to 1 times their base action speed (chosen at random).
• Custom Monsters can increase their action speed with the Swiftness Chaos Upgrade (2.5% per rank).
• Monsters receive a free action after leaving a state of being stunned.

Unaffected Actions

The cooldown time of skills are tied to the player turns instead of true action speed.

External Links

• Action Time - A thesis on how various game mechanics affect the actual amount of time units/"ticks" actions take.
• Skillchip's Testing for Action Speed and X-Mods (Apr. 2012, patch 0.6.6)