I've never tried Hasten... should I start?

[mistagoat]

2 hours ago, Squeegle said:

Member since 2021 and never tried Hasten. I call shenanigans.

Thats what you think, I laced your Tactics with Hasten! Now your hooked! Muahahaha!

[Forager]

3 hours ago, Squeegle said:

Member since 2021 and never tried Hasten. I call shenanigans.

 

Who me? Lol.

 

I usually use a wide variety of powers and I don't have alt-itis... maybe that helps.

 

I do use 2 or 3 LotG. I also like to work a force feedback proc in there... so I party a little bit.

Edited June 5 by Forager

[WumpusRat]

I have hasten on a handful of characters. Generally it's never my go-to power choice, as I always want other stuff that I find more valuable.

If I'm going to pick hasten, it's because I have particular powers that I want to recharge as fast as possible, generally extremely long-recharging things, like Phantom Army, Overgrowth, or the like. 

And if I'm going for that, it means I have to tailor the build to cram as much global recharge into it as possible, which means forgoing powers that I might actually really want instead.

 

Generally my builds try to align with a particular theme, rather than going for "absolute best damage" or anything similar. I'll pick up set bonuses that conform to the theme, even if they're not the "best" choices for any given power. Same thing for cramming attacks full of procs, I generally don't do it because I've never seen the necessity of it. Likely due to the fact that I don't lean on hasten, which makes all the procs less valuable, at least to me.

[tidge]

Spring-boarding from this comment:

 

9 hours ago, WumpusRat said:

If I'm going to pick hasten, it's because I have particular powers that I want to recharge as fast as possible, generally extremely long-recharging things, like Phantom Army, Overgrowth, or the like. 

And if I'm going for that, it means I have to tailor the build to cram as much global recharge into it as possible, which means forgoing powers that I might actually really want instead.

 

Writing only for myself: when I initially realized that I could get 'perma-Hasten' from IO set bonuses (Purples, LotG, etc.) I pretty much realized I could skip Hasten altogether and just get significant Global recharge from the set bonuses. In my case, I never was doing "farming" so when the choice of attack IO sets comes down to Purples v. Winters it was pretty much a no-brainer for me(*1), I'll always use a purple set first, and then maybe use 2-pieces from Winters' (for Slow Resistance) in an off-beat attack... and sometimes if a character has hella many attacks one of those will get a Winter set after I've used ATO and Very Rares.

 

(*1) Because of typical Recover/Accuracy/Global Recharge bonuses from the Very Rare/Purples instead of Res/Def from Winters.

[Ukase]

Because of the game's inability or unwillingness to allow us to "CTRL+Click" more than one power, when I'm on a shield armor character, I tend to not take hasten, because then I have to manually click hasten to keep the status protection active. Or vice-versa. It's annoying. 

On a dom, which I just dinged 50 on, I have perma dom on it, which is super nice because the endurance usage on a dom is just nuts. And I don't really have perma dom, because I almost always forget to use hasten until I realize I lost domination. I've thought about those fancy binds where you try to use it when you move, but when a power isn't recharged, it makes that funny sound which I'd rather not hear. And I like to hear most of the games other sounds. 

So, for me - yeah, get hasten. There's absolutely no downside other then a slight drop in end and maybe the sound or look of it. To be transparent, most of my characters get hasten after level 20 because faster recharge means more end use. That miracle proc helps a lot. 

[GM Crumpet]

Personally I don't find it makes difference unless I'm trying to get a permanent (recharged before the old one has run out) power like phantom army or Light Form. I've got a tray full of powers to click so something is always ready for casting. 

[Snarky]

14 minutes ago, GM Crumpet said:

Personally I don't find it makes difference unless I'm trying to get a permanent (recharged before the old one has run out) power like phantom army or Light Form. I've got a tray full of powers to click so something is always ready for casting. 

very true, but in tough fights i find the key powers recharge times to be very telling on my ability to contribute to a win.