Why am I so bad at punishing slow attacks?

I swear whenever an earth conjurer for example charges up tempest wind, I just have the instinct to punish it via a blast. I don’t know how, but I always fail. I maybe react too late? I have no idea honestly. I want to snare but I know that I’m gonna miss it so bad.

Have I still not fully gotten the speed (used to be shadow) mage out of me, even though I’m a metal mage now (lightning 2nd magic)?

Your attacks are to slow in speed and in windup up

spell windup isnt affected by magic speed affinity

Dexterity

Well a lot of attacks destroy magic projectiles such as tempest. A good counter is to use a spell such as cannon or even a place explosion, if you’re high above a self pillar is good too

If someone uses a devastate, cannon or a placed explosion are great spells to use

update: i stat reset to ice conj

that only works with beast bone cleaver and it is getting nerfed to the ground

what nerfs specifically?

beast bone cleaver:
-2.5% damage
-10% size

ice:
-5% bleed synergy