SKill speed needs to change.

[AlphaDragoon]

Or you could just pay attention to your TP bar and not waste it all during extended battles?

It really isn't that hard. It's a DPS increase based on time that you're in complete control of.

Or you could get Determination and Critical Hit gear and do more damage overall.

That's the point, SS is pretty close to a useless stat. The DPS increase it provides is minimal, it makes you run out of TP more quickly no matter how well you manage it (by virtue of what it does), and the other two DPS increasing stats FAR outstrip it. Even Monks, who are designed to be a Skill Speed based Job, consider SS to be all but useless and stack DET/CRIT.

It needs a rework, IMO. Giving it increased TP regen would make it far more attractive, as well as (slight) increases in AA speed. If they chose to do an AA increase they should be careful though as Monks already have Greased Lightning which increases AA speed and further speed increases might unbalance them.

Or they could just make it so skill speed also effects the cooldown of things not on the global cooldown. A faster Invigorate recharge would REALLY be nice.

This also would be a good idea. Would alleviate the TP drain a bit as you would have faster access to Invigorate, as well as provide quicker access to the off GCD moves for more damage.