(Minor mage) Bypass your water elemental cd - Use his two abilities at the same time

[Picadilly]

Hi folks,

I've found a little trick on my mage.

As you know, the water elemental has two abilities: a nova and a water jet.

Those abilities have a shared cooldown so you have to choose if you use the nova or the waterjet.
You can also (and many mages do that) lock the waterjet and the elemental will cast it on cd, as soon as available.

The trick is very simple: there is always 1 sec before the automatic waterjet casting, and that's exactly the moment you have to take to clic (or bind, it's even faster) and use the nova. Just after the use of the nova, the water elemental will cast the locked water jet as planned.

Congratulation, you just bypassed a shared cooldown

[Galithiel]

Nice find, it can be a great DPS ugrade but quite hard to use.

You can also (and many mages do that) lock the waterjet and the elemental will cast it on cd, as soon as available.

I hope not, this is the worst possible use :P

[Picadilly]

I know mate, but just look at elementals in low and medium difficulty raids/events... they all cast waterjet on pull and every 25s, on CD

[Picadilly]

This is now fixed (according to the hotfix list).