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Charge time, a hidden stat, why?

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Wed, 07/01/2026 - 17:08
Estebag

For the longest time playing this game, i always though that all weapons in general, share the same charge time
but it turns out that charge times are different for some weapons, excuse my ignorance but i didn't know about this UNTIL TODAY

it is a hidden stat that i was not aware of it, but shouldn't the game tell you more about this stat?
some weapons have charge times values of 1.0s or 1.5s, blast bombs have 2.2 s

we have a BARS for damage and speed in the game except for charge time, not sure about everyone else, but i feel like there should be a bar that tells you how much charge time each weapon has and how much it increases on the stats of your Knight when you have higher CTR values

is something important for bombs since bombs depend so much on that stat, so i think bombs should at least have a bar that shows you how much it takes to charge the bomb
if there is a reason for why it shouldn't be such a thing in the game then let me know
that's all i had in mind, thankyou for reading.

Wed, 07/01/2026 - 19:08
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Bopp
statistics bars

Every weapon has "statistics bars" with damage amounts and speed. Presumably the speed bar on a bomb is supposed to convey the charge time. I haven't checked.

The truth is that these statistics bars have been buggy since the game launched. The classic example is Gran Faust's speed bars (more than 4) compared to Divine Avenger's (less than 2), even though these two swords have similar speed in both regular attacks and charge attacks.

You are right that a sword or handgun could have two speed bars to convey the speed of regular attacks and charge attacks separately.

Wed, 07/01/2026 - 19:13
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Bopp
oh and

If you want to know bomb charge times, check out the Bombing Guide on the wiki. Near the bottom, it has charge times in milliseconds, for various levels of CTR.

https://wiki.spiralknights.com/Bombing_Guide

And if you want to know how much CTR affects charge times for swords and handguns, you can get an idea by inspecting the "charges per minute" data sets of the guild Lancer Knightz:

https://wiki.spiralknights.com/Lancer_Knightz_(Guild)/Data

Well, the sword change times are valuable, anyway. The handgun charge times haven't been updated since the 2014 gunner update, so I don't know whether they still apply.

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