Skill Speed question

Been trying to find some info on this and can't seem to locate anything.

I was curious if Skill Speed bonuses only decreased the recast time of your skills, or if it also decreased your global cooldown. Right now it feels like the gcd is about 2 seconds, and I think if there was some way to get it to 1.5 or even 1.7 it would really improve threat generation as well as making interrupts easier.

I haven't done any testing on this myself, but guildies who are currently looking into it think that it's affecting only recast times not GCD. However they're still looking into it so this could change. A reduction in GCD would be amazing for threat generation

According to what I've read, skill speed does improve GCD, which is the primary point behind them, at least for melee. It also reduces internal cooldown of skills.

Conjecture time: the reason GCD is so large is because of skill speed. Casters are stuck with forced GCD's because of cast time and benefit greatly from spell speed increases. In low GD environments, faster attack/skill speed only increases white damage, i.e. auto attacks. Now, they can say that attack speed has a significant benefit for melee as well since it will decrease GCD which has a greater impact.

What remains to be seen is if increased skill speed actually increases the rate that the animation takes place. That would be something special, for as of right now, animations are uninterruptable, even for emergency off GCD skills.

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Originally Posted by LunarRei

According to what I've read, skill speed does improve GCD, which is the primary point behind them, at least for melee. It also reduces internal cooldown of skills.

Conjecture time: the reason GCD is so large is because of skill speed. Casters are stuck with forced GCD's because of cast time and benefit greatly from spell speed increases. In low GD environments, faster attack/skill speed only increases white damage, i.e. auto attacks. Now, they can say that attack speed has a significant benefit for melee as well since it will decrease GCD which has a greater impact.

What remains to be seen is if increased skill speed actually increases the rate that the animation takes place. That would be something special, for as of right now, animations are uninterruptable, even for emergency off GCD skills.

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Good to know! I'll definitely be doing some testing myself once I get my armorsmithing up enough to start using materia ^_^

Thanks!