Faster Casting gem doesn't work with Ranged Attack Totem

Why is this? I can't imagine that GGG would allow spell totem users to receive both benefits of the cast speed gem, and ranged attack totem users neither. Please could I get some feedback on this asap. I see that cast speed off items and gear DOES affect the speed that I cast ranged attack totem.

You want "faster attacks" with your RAT. Faster casting only makes you cast the RAT faster.

I'm aware, but having a certain amount of cast speed is crucial with dual ranged attack totems. As it stands, faster casting does not affect RAT.

What attack gem are you talking about? As far as I can tell they don't have cast times associated with them so why would faster casting affect them?

Faster casting would allow you to cast the totem(s) faster... (Or, at least it should... I've never used the two together.) This is a good thing, but won't affect the time it takes for the totem to attack. Faster Attacks is much more important for RATs.

A Ranged Attack Totem is not casting a spell. It is attacking.

One other thing to consider is that Spell Totem's innate cast speed reduction applies to both the supported spell being cast as well as the summoning time for the totem, whereas Ranged Attack Totem's attack speed reduction only applies to the attack. Although you cannot summon RA Totems faster without other sources of cast speed, Spell Totems are initially slower to summon.

Good grief it's apples and oranges for crying out loud. :P Ranged Attack Totems do not have cast times, they are support skills.. true that as negligible as it is there is an innate initiation time for the ranged attack totems but it's not a cast time. So what you are asking for is a whole new node which would be a geared toward reducing the time it takes to initiate an attack skill I am guessing. I'm not sure I can agree that such a node is really needed or desirable.

Some of you seem to be confused, so let me clarify:

1) I am well aware that cast speed will not affect the speed at which RAT initiates the ranged attack it is linked to. This is completely irrelevant.

2) Increased cast speed from items and passives does reduce the time it takes to put up RAT's

3) The faster casting gem, however, does not register as a link on RAT. This additional cast speed that, as per 2), would further reduce the time it takes to put up RAT's, is unavailable to RAT users.

4) Is this for balance reasons or is it a bug?


Please guys, this is not the place to argue the merits of certain gems on RAT. I hadn't intended on using Faster Casting without Faster Attacks, anyway.

that would be because all the support gems are made for the spell/attack that you are casting/using and you're not using the spell/attack you're using a totem which is casting the spell. The support gem are only supporting your active spell.

Ranged attack totem is not a active spell, its a support gem. so you cant increase the cast speed that you cast the actual totem with using support gems. That is unless you're using a totem that is not a support gem and actually a active skill like flame totem.

Ah, good to know.

Not ideal for the OP I think. Quality does not make the RATs spawn faster, (n)either.