The Hidden Forest

http://www.thehiddenforest.org/webtools/items.php?id=9607

Following problem with it, once clicked the spell will be channeled and the spell cast normaly.
However the Item doesn't indicate that the item is not ready to be recasted again in other words it looks like its ready to be casted again.
If you now click while the item shows you its ready but the timer isn't ready yet you will be able to channel the spell but at the end of the channeling you receive the message that the item isn't ready yet.

I know it's not the only item that doesn't indicate that it's not ready to be casted again, but its one of the few or maybe the only item that lets you activate it in that time but doesn't give you the "not ready message" after the channeling.

You are back on thf nexor ?

While thinking about it more it might be that there is nothing wrong with the item itself but how the Recast type (in this case 9) handles things maybe ?
The only other item i am as far as i know own with a Recast type 9 doesn't show the CD on the item either which is Chanter Donor 1.0 .

If you guys want to leave the items that doesn't show a recast time alone that's fine and i will not bother to worry about it, till than i will see if i might can figure out where the problem is.

I'm pretty sure items with a recast timer only grey out if they are instant cast. Cleric epic 2.0, the bard donors, berserker donor 2.0 etc all grey out, but neither of the cleric donors grey out, berserker donor 1.0 doesn't grey out, etc. This is how it works for me, at least.

I actually isolated this a long time ago. It has to deal with the actual cast time of the spell. I have it written down in my notes, but from what I remember off the top of my head, if the casting time was > 0 then it would never show the grey box. I know there was something else that played into it as well since I could not make adjustment fixes for them, but it's a known issue that I have written down to someday (TM) fix.

Hmm would it be maybe possible to do the check than before the cast instead of at the end of the cast?

That's not the issue. The actual "check" is handled by the client's eqgame.exe not in the server code.

The only way to honestly 100% fix it is to isolate what exact data the client is sending to the server when it greys out an item and making the server code emulate it. It is not a hard process, it's just time consuming.

Some of my clickies (eg: Draco Shield) will reset its cooldown timer when switching targets. I always thought it was just a client UI deal. Other times if I swap in an item to click, then swap it out it will show Ready immediately... Again I thought this was a client/UI issue... I guess I was right.

Vaion wrote:That's not the issue. The actual "check" is handled by the client's eqgame.exe not in the server code.

The only way to honestly 100% fix it is to isolate what exact data the client is sending to the server when it greys out an item and making the server code emulate it. It is not a hard process, it's just time consuming.

Thank you Vaion for taking the time to explain the problem, maybe should make a thread and sticky it with known issues that are getting fixed somewhere down the road.