Is potion haste considered item haste or spell haste?

[Cerpicio]

Is the haste effect from potions considered item haste or spell haste? I know that only the highest item haste will work if you have multiple haste items. And only the highest spell haste will work if you have multiple haste spells.

For example, if I am soloing with my ranger using his epic, Siftwind, will drinking a haste potion increase haste?

What about clicky effects from items like Eyepatch of Plunder?


Thanks,
-- C.

[Xenephex]

Potion haste is spell haste, as is clicky haste, like the eyepatch. Both will stack with item haste.

It can get more complicated than that, but that covers the basics.

[Gaell Stormracer]

If it has no buff icon, it's Item haste. If it has a buff icon in the regular buff box, it's "spell haste". The sum of these 2 cannot exceed 100%.

So Swiftwind(40%) + Potion of Alaxcrity X (50%) = 90% haste, i.e. he'll attack 19 times in the time he would have attacked 10x with an identical delay weapon but no haste.

If it has an icon in the short-duration buff box, it MIGHT be overhaste (as are a FEW clicky effects - Quarm earring, Zoo earring, Tacvi Ring of Organic Darkness, OMM Symbol etc) -- that can take the haste total over 100%.

[SincroFashad]

One thing to note, all the overhaste clickies I am aware of go in the regular buff window, even tho they are overhaste.