SKill speed needs to change.

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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.

All it does is lower the GCD of your moves. It's completely pointless to compare it to Det or Critical Rate because you can't choose which you obtain over the other.


You gain the same amount of TP at the same rate no matter how fast you burn through it, which essentially means your overall damage-per-TP stays the same but your DPS obviously increases since you're able to shell more out at once. you're still in complete control of your TP bar, but it lets you utulize more of it faster. It has its uses, but i dont understand why people wish it did something different...it works exactly the way it should.



If Haste existed and theoretically lowered your GCD to 0.5 seconds, nobody would be able to dispute the beneficial possibilities of Skill Speed, regardless if your TP recovery rate stayed the same.