Surecast (suggested change)

Surecast is one of those cross class abilities that plays a very niche role.

I only ever use it when i know that there is incoming unavoidable damage, which will cancel my next spell cast. Even then its not overly useful and feels like a wasted spell.

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In order to improve this spell and make it a commonly used cross class ability the spell should be changed from;

Next spell is cast without interruption.

to

Next spell is guaranteed to be a critical strike.

Having a guaranteed critical strike would be all sorts of useful, the guaranteed burst for black mages would be amazing on things like conflags, gaols and any add that needs to be bursted down quickly, same goes for summoners with fester.

Having a guaranteed crit adlo on scholars or crit medica or cure 2 on whm would be amazing, to prevent spike damage or recover from a harsh aoe/burst damage on tank.

The improved surecast talent would actually have meaning.

Wow you just took a mediocre ability (outside of PVP) and turned it into an awesome one. And then you made improved surecast make sure people actually use it.

You should probably work for SE. If I had a guaranteed crit on my BLM with the chance that surecast would be reset, I'd be using it constantly.

yeah, surecast is useless as it is now (except if you take damage while casting but it shouldn't happen) and this change would help a lot

seems a bit broken if you keep the recast. being able to cast while moving after using it would be already a huge step in the right direction though

its a 15% chance of recast getting a long chain of free crits is possible but very unlikely.

One suggestion I have seen sometimes ago on this forum is to make this skill enables you to move while casting. That change would be more in line with the original description.
Although I also liked this change too. The name could be changed to Precise Cast or something (Criticast anyone? :P).

Either way, I seriously think this skill need rework.

I thought surecast still fit, because its sure to crit >.<

Well I guess it can be seen that way lol.

Just thought it would be cool if the name emphasizes that you see through enemy's weakness and cast the spell at that weak point and get a crit :D (And you forgot that point for another 30 secs lol)

I like the idea. Guaranteed crit adlo would be excellent on my SCH :p I do feel that if they were to implement this they would need to lower the chance of Improved Surecast going off a little though. 15% looks like a low number, but the RNG on this game is really REALLLLLLLY stupid.

i would be happy if they simply fix that shit. Surecast BUFF should only drop once you FINISH casting.
soooo annoying when you pop it a little too early for fireballs in T5, walk to cancel the cast so you can cast at proprer time and the buff drop when you walk.

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I do like the idea. Would make it very useful and I can see this version working well. And they have an ability that does this already (Life Surge)

Only problem? Doing this may change/remove it as a cross-class skill (maybe gets limited to BLM/SMN) as being *too* powerful, or it may just apply to spells that do damage to enemies (no Physic/Cure/Medica/Adlo/etc)...




Just a side-note: using Surecast this way on an AoE (Medica, Medica 2, Cure 3, Flare, Freeze, Fire 2, Blizzard 2, Tri-Disaster, Miasma 2, Succor...) will NOT guarantee crits on all targets, just this initial/selected target.

Life Surge + Dragonfire Dive/Ring of Thorns/Doom Spike doesn't crit everything (just the targeted enemy), so don't expect Surecast to do it.

Also, on DoTs only the initial will crit, not all the DoTs, so don't expect Thunder/Bio/Miasma/Aero to become godly either.

This would be a nerf to BLM in PvP big time - Surecast sleep is too good to give up in its current form.