Spell Speed!

Thinking of ditching the 49 Crit on my Last Resort for 49 Spell speed. Not going to lie, I've been messing around with it via food, a few acc and Selene. . .the result made me jump on my desk and start helicoptering it. . . .

What do ya'll think?

I think Lalas dont have enough to helicopter. The thumbstick on my Vita is probably bigger.

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Originally Posted by radioactive_lego

I think Lalas dont have enough to helicopter. The thumbstick on my Vita is probably bigger.

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LOL I liked that! But seriously, what would be better, constant quick heals or RNG crits?

On a SCH? Crit hands down. Galvanize becomes very strong after a crit.

WHMs have half a case for stacking SS this patch (Primarily being that the gear shovels it down your throat regardless) and they actually get a little double dip on it with PoM.

As SCH? You need far too much of it to achieve anything remotely noticeable. Outside of fcob it doesn't really matter quite frankly, but once you start min maxing for T13 those Adlo crits really are a welcome sight!

God not this discussion again, it's almost like a lady's period with it appearing once a month.

I tried to heckle this post for starters, but it always seems to get traction. It's so regular it's gotta be on metamucil.

Sounds like the only thing helicoptering is this topic =(

I tried to write a real response, but I can't. Too much has already been said on this topic. Too many beatings has this dead chocobo endured.

Spell speed allows users to "react" slightly faster to sudden spikes in damage such as misjudged timing of Regen, spamming your Cure II key and hope the heal lands on the tank before he dies etc (I know the everything is scripted, no reaction is needed bla bla bla, but I do not live in an ideal world where everything goes 100% according to plan :)).

For Scholar however, you can react to these situations even faster via your Lustrates, and coupled with your Aldo's interaction with critical, you should choose Crit over SS anytime of the day.

As for your Last Resort's remaining 31 Stat points which I do not know what you put in....that may be a different story :P.

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Originally Posted by DreamWeaver

Spell speed allows users to "react" slightly faster to sudden spikes in damage such as misjudged timing of Regen, spamming your Cure II key and hope the heal lands on the tank before he dies etc (I know the everything is scripted, no reaction is needed bla bla bla, but I do not live in an ideal world where everything goes 100% according to plan :)).

For Scholar however, you can react to these situations even faster via your Lustrates, and coupled with your Aldo's interaction with critical, you should choose Crit over SS anytime of the day.

As for your Last Resort's remaining 31 Stat points which I do not know what you put in....that may be a different story :P.

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If you feed the bears, they will come helicopter on your porch.

Aaaand someone restarted the discussion about spell speed again. Plenty of materials in this forum concerning spell speed (yes, also concerning the "misjudging" thing and the actual casting time differences). There's a search function on the top right of the topic table.

You 2 do realize by replying to this thread you're continuously "feeding" and "restarting" it for more visibility :).

Anyway as far as I know, most SS discussions/analysis are meant for WHMs and not SCHs (general consensus = get Crit and STFU), since OP is a scholar, I've just given my opinion on why Crit is better than SS for Scholars.

P/S : If you really want this topic to die in the fires of Mount Doom, please do not reply anymore.

Well, no, actually. This may actually have the effect I/we want.

For starters: The amount of off-topic posts when it comes to spell speed and the "helicoptering"(?) involved should be an indirect message about the viability of spell speed. Secondly it keeps this topic bumped so the first point I mentioned will stay noticed.

Get accuracy. Even if you don't dps hitting those energy drains is really nice. There is so much spell speed on the gear this tier there isn't much point in stacking it.

I hate spell speed as a scholar..
Since as an amazing single-target healer I need to spam physick/adlo on MT the whole fight, high spell speed makes my mana drains faster. And even though scholars have great MP regeneration, mana is still a big problem when u progressing new contents, because u need lots of over-healing/shielding to raise the party fault tolerance rate to as high as possible.
Plus I dont feel benefiting much from spell speed when I dont have any spell longer than 2.5sec cast time and I have 3 instant Off-GCD heal every minute.
For these reasons, my BiS stats are crit+piety.