Why are skill speed & spell speed separate stats?

[Giantbane]

I think you have answered the question by mentioning Flash for example.
If flash is affected by Skill Speed, then you may cast it more frequently, apparently the system was designed to restrcit you to do that. ^^

Why would that be a bad thing? It's already worse in terms of threat generated and damage done (none) than the warrior's overpower. So it should also not be affected by the any "speed" gear that the PLD wears? That makes no sense.

Seems more like an oversight than actual intended design.

Tl;dr version of this:

"We don't want players to rely on spell Haste like they did in FFXI or other Final Fantasy games."

Uhhh ... what?

[Tupsi]

Uhhh ... what?

That was Yoshida's reasoning for this Skill/Spell system when Haste spell would simply solve all issues - He simply wanted to try to nip an issue before it crops up, but as proven with everything else he tried in that regard, it didn't help.