Does Swift Cast work on any skills?

[Nightroad]

Just for interest, it works on summoning carbuncles too .
Change them on the run .

[Chocolys]

Just for interest, it works on summoning carbuncles too .
Change them on the run .

Oh yeah!. The only very rare times I summon an Egi without Swiftcast is because Swiftcast in on Cooldown.
I hope when they gonna mess up with the skills in 5.0 that they're not gonna remove our access to Swiftcast as a SMN :O

[Kaurie]

Just for interest, it works on summoning carbuncles too .
Change them on the run .

Why would you ever change your pet? You pretty much have access to Useful Pet, Useful Pet minus some damage, and Useless Pet as a Summoner, Useful Pet and Useless Pet as a Arcansit, and I'd say two Useful Pets that you'd never want to switch out in the middle of battle as SCH.

Like Rawrz said, my instant cast procs for Fire 3 and Thunder 3 do not consume Swiftcast either, but they also do not consume MP, so is it linked to that maybe?

It sounds that the proc itself makes the spell an ability. That's interesting to know, though.

[Atoli]

Why would you ever change your pet? You pretty much have access to Useful Pet, Useful Pet minus some damage, and Useless Pet as a Summoner, Useful Pet and Useless Pet as a Arcansit, and I'd say two Useful Pets that you'd never want to switch out in the middle of battle as SCH.

Garuda for trash, Ifrit for bosses?
Selene for everything unless you'd otherwise actually have to heal the tank?

Pretty sure Nightroad didn't literally mean mid-battle but while running from one pack to the next/from the last pack to the next boss and so on^^

[Kaurie]

Garuda for trash, Ifrit for bosses?
Selene for everything unless you'd otherwise actually have to heal the tank?

Pretty sure Nightroad didn't literally mean mid-battle but while running from one pack to the next/from the last pack to the next boss and so on^^

Garuda is superior for bosses and for trash.

I tend to prefer Eos, as the added healing capabilities allows for me to DPS more, which makes a bigger difference than a 1.5% speed boost. However, Selene works for many. Whichever you choose, you're not going to swap mid battle. There is also no reason to swap between pulls. If you're swapping between pulls, you do not use swiftcast, you save that for Shadowflare.

[raela]

Whichever you choose, you're not going to swap mid battle.

For those moments when the tank spins the boss and cleaves your poor fairy into oblivion.

[Kaurie]

For those moments when the tank spins the boss and cleaves your poor fairy into oblivion.

Heh yea, resummoning your dead pet is an adequate use of swiftcast - summon, but I was specifically talking about switching pets :P

As a tank, I can tell you that Shadow flare's 5% slow debuff is completely worthless and has no effect on the amount of damage I take.

That is incorrect. You take precisely 5% less damage per second as the mobs are hitting you 5% slower.