Draw upon holy might innate cast time doesn't mirror the spell's cast time

Aranthys

The cleric spell has a cast time of 3.
The innate has a cast time of 1 round.

Expected behaviour : Both have the same cast time

Madhax

I figured this was intentional. After all, the Cure Light Wounds innate ability has a cast time of like 0-1, which is much faster than the corresponding clerical spell.

SirK8

Yup, these are Baalspawn powers, not your everyday CLW and DUHM. I've always viewed this as intentional.

TheCoffeeGod

Looking up both the original and EE in NI, I'd agree it was intentional.
In the OG game, the spell is a casting time of 5 (though the desrpition says 2)
However, the Innate is a casting time of 10, same as EE.

Barring the inconsistancies between Descriptions/Actual Casting time, I'd say it was intentional and kept at OG casting time.

Aranthys

Well, all the other powers have a very short cast time.
To me, it's a bit weird that its the only power with a huge cast time.

Oh, well, it's easily modded anyway.

Gallowglass

Certainly the usual situation has always been that innate abilities for various character classes (not only Bhaalspawn abilities for Charname) activate quite quickly, generally faster than casting a spell (if there is one) with the same effect. I've always thought it made some sense that an innate ability should be faster than a corresponding spell.

Why a Bhaalspawn's DUHM ability is an exception is a mystery to me ... conceivably it was an error in the original game, but no-one corrected it (originally or in EE) because no-one was sure whether it was definitely an error.

Aedan

Not An Issue. It is intentional and present in the vanilla game as well.