Haste Rating - reduce the 3.5 second cooldown on Chain Lightning?

[Kulzor]

I'm not at home, so I can't test it, and Googling is coming up empty.

So I figured I'd ask my brethren here, who have so many elemental shaman...

If you stack Haste Rating, does it reduce the cooldown on Chain Lightning, in addition to the cast time?

[Turenn]

No, Haste only reduse cast time/channeling and GCD.

[Kulzor]

Hmm, so with my current 1.82 or so cast time on LB, casting LB,LB,CL is great - unless I use bloodlust. Then /castsequence is probably getting stuck at the CL while waiting for the cooldown.

That may explain why my shaman doesn't even come close to the BM Hunter or Arcane Mage in damage done on an instance.

Perhaps I'll make a second macro just for boss fights that removes CL entirely. Either that or change the /castsequence into a /castrandom LB,CL.

Edit: The 1.82 is without dropping the haste totem. I've been dropping Windfury, but when that nerf goes in to not affect the hunter, I'll go back to the spell haste totem.

[Crucial]

Theres also the elemental talent which reduces CL cooldown.

[Kulzor]

I have it, which is why I mentioned the "3.5 second cooldown" in the title. The same problem would apply to others without that talent, and who used LB,LB,LB,CL or LBx4,CL though.

[Crucial]

I have it, which is why I mentioned the "3.5 second cooldown" in the title. The same problem would apply to others without that talent, and who used LB,LB,LB,CL or LBx4,CL though.

Sorry missed that - this is why I use 2 two bindings so I can time it independant of other spells - especially if things like interrupts need to be worked in as well.

[Turenn]

Have you tried useing /castrandom Chain Lightning, Lightning Bolt

[Kulzor]

I haven't tried it, but now that someone has verified about no reduction in cooldown, I'm going to try it. Worst case is the shaman ends up just spamming LBs over and over for a rare fight, but in the long run it should work out better (especially when activating Bloodlust).

[Turenn]

They will cast CL very often, if not just at the CD's end it isn't far from it. I use it and it works great. At least it's better then a castsequence.

[Turenn]

They will cast CL very often, if not just at the CD's end it isn't far from it. I use it and it works great. At least it's better then a castsequence.

The risk here is that it will open with a CL and pull aggro.

If you're a 5x Shaman team, this is not an issue. If you're more traditional with a Tank/Healer/DPS setup, this could be bad. (Talking from experience here. )

I use a tank, I just open with a TC/Shockwave or Consecrate depending on the tank I use, it isn't a problem, not yet anyway. Things might change with the LK.