Quote Originally Posted by Judge_Xero View Post
Yes, but you have to consider micro managing your pet on top of OGCD abilities. Any loss in using a GCD skill from shortening the Recast time is wasted damage. (Fester+Contagion, Rouse/Spur Aerial Slash, Bane)

Spell Speed is completely counter productive to SMN design and is a terrible stat.
You can use pet abilities even while casting a spell that isn't instant-cast, so I don't really get the issue here. You can easily just keep casting non-stop as you activate pet abilities with no time lost. How much SS you have has no impact on your ability to use OGCD and Pet Abilities without losing DPS.