Lightspeed sucks

[Kyln]

Lightspeed's potency reduction is not very appealing, but it can still be useful in a healing-intensive situation. In a DPS perspective, it's great for kiting or for using gravbombs (if you use Ewer on yourself, you won't be wasting mana per say).

The healing reduction might be yucky, but it's definitely a skill that should not be overlooked if the situation arises that you need to quickly turn a fight around in your favor.

[Nicolepwned]

Has anybody tested out if its an insta-Raise with Lightspeed?

[Sabeta]

Has anybody tested out if its an insta-Raise with Lightspeed?

It's obviously not. Lightspeed reduces cast time by 2.5s. You get a somewhat faster Raise, but it still takes time.

[sharazisspecial]

I don't see how reducing your damage by 25% makes you "king of aoe damage".

Gravity is 2.5 seconds cast as well

Theres no reason to cast LS unless you want to slip and slide around the battlefield while doing less damage.

[VanilleFang]

I've only used it in a few situations:

1) Soloing and kiting.
2) Healing the group/tank while having to move to avoid AoEs.
3) Raising (if Swiftcast is on cooldown)

Its not useless, and it doesn't suck, its just not that strong most of the time. I use it if the, rare, situation calls for it. Otherwise I ignore it. If it reduced mana cost by a whole 50% it might be too powerful honestly. 25% would probably be good enough, especially since you can use Ewer.

[Kietsu]

It's handy if you're in a situation where you need to do a *lot* of movement (which is almost never) or if people are dying way too much. The potency penalty is really weird considering it's not a potency buff otherwise.
That said, there's exactly one place where it's actually part of my strategy: Using the Nascar strategy to kite the adds around when fighting the Myrmidon Princess in Cutter's Cry. Lightspeed lets you do a much better job of healing if the rest of the party has trouble for whatever reason while the ants are busy chasing you around.

[Roxas_Andrade]

Maybe SE could do a little adjust for Lightspeed:
On diurnal, you get no penalty on heals and on noturnal you get no penalty on damage. Or vice versa...

[Parapluies]

{stoneskin}{please use it}

[sharazisspecial]

{stoneskin}{please use it}

Very expensive (almost as much as Helios)
Poor HP/M , weak enough that its situational alot of times. AST now has the worst HPM and mana return of the Healers. So they cant be afford to be doing this.
This may change at 60 with the new hp totals.

GCDs are not being reduced either. So you are giving up alot of full GCDs.
In nocturnal stance you have access to a "light speed stone-skin" with Aspect benefic , its cheaper and has a heal attached too.

Stoneskin has its use in Diurnal stance as a tank (or red circle loving dps) effective hp increase, but its not like you need to lightspeed to do this. As Whms have shown before.

[Staris]

It is going to be amazing for end game raiding. Iit lets you cast any amount of skills while running during mechanics; if you don't need it for 15 seconds you can click it off after needed amount.