Cast rate

Diablo II Notation Basic Class Skill Item Ally Quest Area Monster Tale All Skills Fire Skills Skill bonus Oskill Aura Equipped Charges Charged suffix Chance to Cast On Attack On Striking When Struck When You Die Kill an Enemy Level-up Some skills apply a delay when used: while the delay is active neither that skill nor any other skill with a delay can be used. Nothing reduces the length of these delays but, since they begin at the action flag (the frame in the attack or casting animation in which the action is actually executed), increasing attack or cast rate will slightly reduce the interval between actions since the action flag will occur earlier in the animation: interval = action flag + delay. Class Skill Delay (Seconds) Amazon Poison Javelin 0.6 Plague Javelin 4.0 Immolation Arrow 1.0 Valkyrie 6.0 Assassin Shock Web 0.6 Blade Sentinel 2.0 Shadow Warrior 6.0 Dragon Flight 1.0 Shadow Master 6.0 Druid Werewolf 1.0 Firestorm 0.6 Werebear 1.0 Molten Boulder 2.0 Fissure 2.0 Volcano 4.0 Armageddon 6.0 Hurricane 6.0 Paladin Fist of the Heavens 1.0 Sorceress Fire Wall 1.4 Meteor 1.2 Blizzard 1.8 Hydra 1.6 Frozen Orb 1.0 The only exception is when skills with delays are cast by Chance to Cast items: multiple skills with delays can be cast. [1] However, while the skill delays are not applied, an 11 frame delay is applied from the action flag: during this delay no active skills can be used, although Scrolls of Identify and Town Portal placed in the belt can be used. [2] [3] This 11 frame delay does not interrupt an attack sequence if Chance to Cast is applied during that sequence. The delay can be applied from the action flag of any individual attack in the sequence, so if it is applied by an attack early in the sequence then the delay may end before that sequence ends. If multiple attacks in a sequence apply Chance to Cast, the delay is applied from the last attack in the sequence to apply it. [4] Reference Casting Delays (Arreat Summit) Onderduiker, Chance to Cast and Curses Tests (Technical Discussion)