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There's still initial costs to Channeled spells...(1)Category: PTR FeedbackJuly-14-2014 9:27 AM PDT (10 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
Check it out.

It's there.

Intentionally or not I don't know.

When I hover my mouse over the AP orb and press a button for the channeled spell I can see the AP drop from:

  • Disintegrate/Chaos Nexus: 133 down to 126 on "Live" vs. 133 down to 122 on "PTR"....so 4 AP initial cost
  • Disintegrate/Intensify: 133 down to 126 on "Live" vs. 133 down to 122 on "PTR"....so 4 AP initial cost
  • Ray of Frost/Snow Blast: 133 down to 124 on "Live" vs. 133 down to 118 on "PTR"....so 6 AP initial cost
  • Arcane Torrent/Disruption: 133 down to 127 on "Live" vs. 133 down to 124 on "PTR"....so 3 AP initial cost
  • Arcane Torrent/Arcane Mines: 133 down to 125 on "Live" vs. 133 down to 118 on "PTR"....so 7 AP initial cost.
  • I didn't test all the runes...but there's certainly a pattern.

    You can also rapidly press your key for any of the the spells above in "PTR" and blow through your AP in just a few seconds (just like in the previous PTR with the 30 AP up front cost, just not quite as quickly). You can't do that on "Live".

    So, there's definitely still an initial cost built into Channeling Spells and it's not mentioned in the patch notes.

    (and thanks to WizarD for noticing this)
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    There's still initial costs to Channeled spells...(63)July-17-2014 11:28 AM PDT (10 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
    We've identified a bug with Ray of Frost, Disintegrate, and Arcane Torrent that's causing them to charge their channeling cost up front. These channeled abilities are not intended to have an up front cost, though, and the bug is being addressed. While we don't have an estimate on when this fix will be pushed to the PTR, we do know it will not be included in the next build. Thanks for the reports, everyone, and thank you for playing on the test realm!
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