Does Swift Cast work on any skills?

Yep, those are all abilities, not spells. As another interesting point, healing abilities aren't affected by any buff that increases incoming or outgoing heals, such as defiance and convalescence, as far as I know nothing can buff them.

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Originally Posted by alimdia

Yep, those are all abilities, not spells. As another interesting point, healing abilities aren't affected by any buff that increases incoming or outgoing heals, such as defiance and convalescence, as far as I know nothing can buff them.

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Raw boosts to mind from pots can. Technically the spear is an HPS buff too. Lulz.

Also, yes, swiftcast will be consumed by any spell cast following it, instant or hard cast.... but proc based spells like Fire III from a fire starter or a Thunder variant with thundercloud will consume their respective proc buffs instead of swiftcast.

FF Dev certainly don't like to make things work simply xD

Just for interest, it works on summoning carbuncles too .
Change them on the run .

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Originally Posted by Nightroad

Just for interest, it works on summoning carbuncles too .
Change them on the run .

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Oh yeah!. The only very rare times I summon an Egi without Swiftcast is because Swiftcast in on Cooldown.
I hope when they gonna mess up with the skills in 5.0 that they're not gonna remove our access to Swiftcast as a SMN :O

Like Rawrz said, my instant cast procs for Fire 3 and Thunder 3 do not consume Swiftcast either, but they also do not consume MP, so is it linked to that maybe?

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Originally Posted by Nightroad

Just for interest, it works on summoning carbuncles too .
Change them on the run .

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Why would you ever change your pet? You pretty much have access to Useful Pet, Useful Pet minus some damage, and Useless Pet as a Summoner, Useful Pet and Useless Pet as a Arcansit, and I'd say two Useful Pets that you'd never want to switch out in the middle of battle as SCH.

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Like Rawrz said, my instant cast procs for Fire 3 and Thunder 3 do not consume Swiftcast either, but they also do not consume MP, so is it linked to that maybe?

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It sounds that the proc itself makes the spell an ability. That's interesting to know, though.

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

Why would you ever change your pet? You pretty much have access to Useful Pet, Useful Pet minus some damage, and Useless Pet as a Summoner, Useful Pet and Useless Pet as a Arcansit, and I'd say two Useful Pets that you'd never want to switch out in the middle of battle as SCH.

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Garuda for trash, Ifrit for bosses?
Selene for everything unless you'd otherwise actually have to heal the tank? ;)

Pretty sure Nightroad didn't literally mean mid-battle but while running from one pack to the next/from the last pack to the next boss and so on^^

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Garuda for trash, Ifrit for bosses?
Selene for everything unless you'd otherwise actually have to heal the tank? ;)

Pretty sure Nightroad didn't literally mean mid-battle but while running from one pack to the next/from the last pack to the next boss and so on^^

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Garuda is superior for bosses and for trash.

I tend to prefer Eos, as the added healing capabilities allows for me to DPS more, which makes a bigger difference than a 1.5% speed boost. However, Selene works for many. Whichever you choose, you're not going to swap mid battle. There is also no reason to swap between pulls. If you're swapping between pulls, you do not use swiftcast, you save that for Shadowflare.

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

Fun Fact: Swiftcast also works on instant cast spells.

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I cannot tell you how many time I've used Swift Cast + Ruin II... The amount of tear I've shed can probably drown the population of Primal Data center...