Afflatus Solace and Reraise / Recast

[boogers]

I read the Advanced thread on testing Solace, but did not see any mention of the effects of Solace upon death. (Posting here 'cause I don't have enough posts to ask in the Advanced thread)

I was wondering if someone could confirm this before they make the update this coming 27th. During our Dynamis-Beaucedine run yesterday, I managed to die with Solace up (and likely maxed from curing) and never used Holy. Just prior to death my MP was close 0. When I used my RR, I raised with maxed weakened MP (I observed this twice; there was no other WHM in the party for Devotion).

Then another odd thing happened after using my RR. I put up a new RR and then put solace back up and proceed to raise someone. I was able to cast Raise 3 TWICE (back-to-back) -- this took me by surprise because I know that there's a long timer while weakened (more than a minute). Yet there was no recast timer after my first cast. So when I proceeded to reuse the spell, sure enough it showed up in my log with Raise 3 being cast back-to-back.

I am wondering if this is perhaps a glitch that they might be fixing in the next update. Or can someone else test this (at least the MP being maxed upon RR)? Also, if anyone's doing Dynamis (good place for testing on dead people), could you test out the "occasionally has no recast timer" phenomenon? Just make sure to keep solace up 100% and never use Holy.

[Pergo]

1) Dying and raising up with full mp must mean you deleveled upon death and releveled upon raise.

2) There's no Raise timer effect with Solace, chances are you probably got interrupted and didn't notice it or someone else raised the first guy you were raising before yours went off.

[boogers]

1) Aha! Thanks for pointing that out -- I think I _did_ die and relevel. That's too bad though...

2) "There's no Raise timer effect with Solace" Are you saying that Solace eliminates recast timers? Or are you saying Solace does nothing to reduce recast timers? I'm guess the latter. As for raising, we generally call out who's raising whom. Even if someone raised my intended target a fraction of a second before me, my chat filters would have shown it (all party effects display, including raises). My chat log showed no one else raising; in fact it showed that I had cast Raise 3 and my MP had gone from max to 150 less. I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation, but it's still buggin' me =)

[Pergo]

I meant Solace doesn't change raise timers so I'm not sure what you experienced then. =/ I just actually tested Weakened+ Solace + R3 and noticed no difference.

[Hanyoko]

Most likely the person you were casting Raise on got a Raise from someone else. Which canceled your casting.