Thing about spell speed is that to make it balanced you are going to need tons of it for it to be noticeable and worthwhile (in small amounts its neither noticeable nor good because of latency and human delays though with cast ques it becomes less of a problem, it will depend on the coding of the game as well, as this can be alleviated with it, anyway XD)
Look at D3 with attack speed, lol, You didnt need much to make it noticeable, so yes, the effects were bigger, and what happened, everyone stacked attack speed because it was out of the tables OP. Like, lol. Just lol.
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Sorry for going off topic again! D:
I don't know about WHM BiS, all I know is that this game has very few gear choices /sadface, I guess thats normal but without being able to meld materia, and materia melding being aslo held back by stats cap on items. you really are left out with less choices for gear personalization.
