Stat Priority as a WHM.

[IveraIvalice]

I will never put ss on my gear after I did tests before novus. I had a set of gear that had a good amount of spell speed on it, and when removing the set to be naked basically, it was about a 100 point difference in ss. With about a 100 points difference in spell speed, the speed it increased my cures was exactly .08
That is atrociously low for 100 points.
Btw incase you didn't know, the exact cast time can be checked by looking at the actions and traits menu and it does update with stats, that's how I knew it was exactly .08

Though ss does make a bigger difference to blms. I don't know why, maybe it's because it's offensive magic? But for healers spells and buffs it's garbage

[Artiste]

Though ss does make a bigger difference to blms. I don't know why, maybe it's because it's offensive magic? But for healers spells and buffs it's garbage

Becoz it's the only class that doesn't have the secondary effect of the spell-speed : Mana problems (or TP for physical classes with skill speed)
But still, I like my build Max Piety + as much spell-speed as possible on my WHM.

End-game fights in this game are like this usually : You heave almost nothing to heal for some times, and then, burst of dmg for 10-15sec, then relativly calm again for 30-50sec, and that's usually where the wipes are, more spell-speed you have, easyer those burst of dmg will be, and slighty more determinations, or crit rate, wont help me in those cases.

The other problem, was also asking for ballad (witch reduce the dmg of the bard, that's not a good thing), if I can do without, even if ppl take avoidable dmg, or if I raise, this is a good thing, and that's why I play full Piety.

[Cynfael]

Becoz it's the only class that doesn't have the secondary effect of the spell-speed : Mana problems (or TP for physical classes with skill speed).

No, it's because BLMs perpetually chain hard casts for damage, with occasional proc usage woven between said hard casts. Hence why the GCD and cast time reduction actually make a difference for them.

[Yonko]

Becoz it's the only class that doesn't have the secondary effect of the spell-speed : Mana problems (or TP for physical classes with skill speed)
But still, I like my build Max Piety + as much spell-speed as possible on my WHM.

End-game fights in this game are like this usually : You heave almost nothing to heal for some times, and then, burst of dmg for 10-15sec, then relativly calm again for 30-50sec, and that's usually where the wipes are, more spell-speed you have, easyer those burst of dmg will be, and slighty more determinations, or crit rate, wont help me in those cases.

The other problem, was also asking for ballad (witch reduce the dmg of the bard, that's not a good thing), if I can do without, even if ppl take avoidable dmg, or if I raise, this is a good thing, and that's why I play full Piety.

If you want SS for a burst of 10-15 seconds use PoM will increase your SS more than any gear can.

[Yonko]

I will never put ss on my gear after I did tests before novus. I had a set of gear that had a good amount of spell speed on it, and when removing the set to be naked basically, it was about a 100 point difference in ss. With about a 100 points difference in spell speed, the speed it increased my cures was exactly .08
That is atrociously low for 100 points.
Btw incase you didn't know, the exact cast time can be checked by looking at the actions and traits menu and it does update with stats, that's how I knew it was exactly .08

Though ss does make a bigger difference to blms. I don't know why, maybe it's because it's offensive magic? But for healers spells and buffs it's garbage

Its better for BLMs because they never run out of MP. So being able to cast spells .08 faster will let them get out an extra spell that much quicker.

The actual increase in speed could be different just like the increase from piety is different for each class.