Make Stoneskin 2 instant cast

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It won't make some players unhappy in the way you think. It's just normal that everyspell has a cost and a constraint. WHM is a lot about casting spell, only instant are Regen, Benediction, Aero 1, Aquatic aura ect... This makes senses that SS2 stays into this logic background. It still has a MP cost, it's still linked to the SS 1 so it's makes senses that it still needs a cast time.

"It doesn't feel right" just don't feel like an convincing answer.

Given how anti-Speed Run the Dev team has been in their dungeon design, the only legitimate reason I can think of that they didn't make SS2 instant cast was to give WHMs a choice in their resource management in a speedrun environment.

"Do I burn my swiftcast on that Stoneskin II? Or perhaps I'll burn it with a Holy I'll use later down the line? Oh, and the MP cost on Stoneskin II is pretty high for four people, maybe I should save the MP for another Holy or Cure on the next pack" etc etc.

I guess you could say it was an attempt to give WHM a bit more depth in their toolkit.

Personally, I believe SS2 as a QoL tool for Raid groups, allowing groups to only wait 8 seconds (or less if the WHM burns Swiftcast) instead of 24 seconds between wipes. Kinda funny, if they allowed SS2 to only be cast in only a Full Party composition, they might've avoided some of these threads popping up. But hey, hindsight is 20/20.

I feel everyone here has a legitimate explanation of why Stoneskin 2 has cast time to a degree. In practice there are, and will be people who will use it indiscriminately. And while it will never break an entire duty run, I find it cumulatively annoy. So the reason I'm creating this thread, is to say if they are gonna do it anyways, just make it less interruptible.

I personally died way too many times to WHM, much more often than SCH. Mainly because of their poor judgement of the situation, and poor resource management. I mean I wish all of the WHM out there will practice the thought process you are describing lol, it'll really make my day as Tank.

I would respond that asking a loaded question is in poor taste and then refuse to answer because of it.

It was rhetorical. You and I already know the answer, you reserving to a put-down just confirmed it.