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    TaalAzura's Avatar
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    Taal Kheru
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    Why doesnt TP Regen scale with Skill Speed?

    Skill Speed vs Spell speed isnt even arguable; BLM have an infinite amount of resources to utilize SpS efficiently, while physical DPS almost receive a hindrance for adding more SkS, is there a reason for this or is it oversight?
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    Sinaloa Dorn
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    Phoenix
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    Scholar Lv 61
    Quote Originally Posted by TaalAzura View Post
    Skill Speed vs Spell speed isnt even arguable; BLM have an infinite amount of resources to utilize SpS efficiently, while physical DPS almost receive a hindrance for adding more SkS, is there a reason for this or is it oversight?
    Physical classes do way more damage with their white hits which profit quite a lot from skill speed. A monk I know how claims to sit at 320+ dps told me 40% of his damage comes form autoattacking. Quite a good reason to invest in those. You just need to find the balance where more autoattacks do less damage than higher TP-Skills. No min-maxing here.
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    Aria Placida
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    Lamia
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    Ninja Lv 88
    Quote Originally Posted by Sinaloa View Post
    Physical classes do way more damage with their white hits which profit quite a lot from skill speed.
    Skill speed does not affect auto-attack speed. To confirm, I just went and tested this on striking dummies in Coerthas. Methodology was as follows:

    Weapon: Artemis Bow +1; 3.28 second delay
    Skill speed from gear: 63; .06 second GCD shift, would expect adjusted AA delay to be at most 3.22 sec
    Number of consecutive attacks: 101; first attack comes around the 1 second mark, so target times will be adjusted to times for 101st attack.
    Expected 101st time if affect is present: <325 seconds
    Expected 101st time if affect is absent: <331 seconds
    Observed 101st time: ~329 seconds

    Timer used was my phone's stopwatch. FFXIV APP was used to determine number of hits. Obviously, I started them both at the same time.
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    Menae Dulanis
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    Conjurer Lv 70
    Quote Originally Posted by Sinaloa View Post
    Physical classes do way more damage with their white hits which profit quite a lot from skill speed. A monk I know how claims to sit at 320+ dps told me 40% of his damage comes form autoattacking. Quite a good reason to invest in those. You just need to find the balance where more autoattacks do less damage than higher TP-Skills. No min-maxing here.
    Monks gain an autoattack speed increase from their abilities; skill speed doesn't affect it.

    And BLM are the exception, not the rule, due to essentially infinite mp. Spell speed isn't very good for most casters/healers either.
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