Quote Originally Posted by Cynric View Post
Situation : swiftcast is down. Now do you really need the healer to communicate to you that swiftcast is down? Or did you just not notice the person who's dead has been dead for longer than 10 seconds?
Yes, you really do need to communicate that Swiftcast is down. I've seen it happen way too often that a Summoner and healer will both pop their swiftcast at the same time because they weren't able to communicate properly.

Maybe one of them didn't have Swiftcast available, but it only had a few seconds left before it became available again. There's no way they would be able to type that out, but because of the delay, the other person would think they didn't have it available, and would pop their own Swiftcast. With voice chat they can easily say, "My swiftcast is back up in 10 seconds."

Maybe the Summoner has Swiftcast available but didn't notice the dead person because they were focusing on their rotation. Without voice chat, the healer (not wanting to waste their Swiftcast if they don't have to) would wait a bit for the SMN to raise, notice they weren't, assume they couldn't and try raising themselves. At this point the SMN finally notices the dead person and also tries to raise them, and both the healer and SMN waste their Swiftcast and MP. With voice chat, the healer can quickly call the SMN's attention.

It's certainly possible to raid without voice chat, but it's much, much easier with voice chat. Especially if you need to discuss strategies. A team that's doing everything 100% perfectly doesn't need voice callouts, but if there's a wipe, you're going to want to discuss what happened. This can be very frustrating without voice chat, since typing out responses takes much longer and there's no indication that you're even at the keyboard until you hit Enter. Using voice chat is much more convenient and less frustrating for everyone involved.