We should have a "Lance mage", "Ninja Sword mage", "Fist mage"

[Wintersandman]

Except your argument is that they'd be MORE likely to eat the AOE with instant casts which allow them to move and maintain DPS while avoiding the attack than with cast times that force them to stop attacking until they stop.

Would those BLMs eat all those AOEs if Fire 1 was instant cast?

I bet you a lot less would and they would run around like Jack Rabbits too.

We're not talking about timing OGCDs, though. We're talking about pace, remember?

If I can only squeeze in one OGCD when I could previously fit in 2, then it's slower paced.

Uh that doesn't make sense. You speed up every 60 seconds as I stated earlier. the rest of the time you're just sitting there waiting for a BL proc or BL/Emp Arrow to come off CD.

I didn't answer it because it doesn't have an answer.

Could be 1 in a minute, could be 0, could be 20. For example, when I was doing my trial roulette yesterday and got Moogles, I threw my dots on everything I could, and was getting procs almost every GCD, sometimes multiple times. I was able to use most of them because I wasn't locked in a cast bar when they procced.

Demonstrate for me in a 60 second encounter how the new cast bar inhibits this on a single target.