The concept of pure healers

[ty_taurus]

Of course its not unreasonable, considering ASTs get that 5% cast time reduction just by flipping on a stance XD.

Actually, the buff on Diurnal stance is a 5% attack speed buff. If I recall correctly, the lilies were described as shortening cast times. If this is a literal description, that's way bigger than the attack speed boost. I know it seems silly to nitpick this, but attack speed is a stat that calculates a number of things including cast time. Just straight chopping off 0.125 seconds (if the buff is indeed 5%), is more than what the attack speed buff is calculating.

Of course, this is all hypothetical.

[DreamWeaver]

Actually, the buff on Diurnal stance is a 5% attack speed buff. If I recall correctly, the lilies were described as shortening cast times. If this is a literal description, that's way bigger than the attack speed boost. I know it seems silly to nitpick this, but attack speed is a stat that calculates a number of things including cast time. Just straight chopping off 0.125 seconds (if the buff is indeed 5%), is more than what the attack speed buff is calculating.

Of course, this is all hypothetical.

Attack Speed is same as casting speed in this game FYI, you can easily test it, check your GCD before Diurnal and after Diurnal.

Additionally the 5% GCD reduction is AFTER the reduction by Spell Speed, just an interesting thing to note.

[Ghishlain]

Attack Speed is same as casting speed in this game FYI, you can easily test it, check your GCD before Diurnal and after Diurnal.

Additionally the 5% GCD reduction is AFTER the reduction by Spell Speed, just an interesting thing to note.

Attack Speed also reduces both your recast and cast time (and WS cast time and recast, and auto attack delay, lol...) while Casting Speed only affects your cast time. You can see attack speed type buffs (though not directly called Attack Speed) on things like Ley Lines, Diurnal Sect, The Arrow, Presence of Mind, Huton, Greased Lightning, etc. while Cast Speed I believe is only present on Lightspeed which is a flat reduction of 2.5s with no change to recast (please correct me if I'm wrong if there are other abilities that directly change cast time, I can't recall ATM).

It's a small little semantic but important little distinction when trying to compare apples to apples. Whether the lilies are a cast time or attack speed buff - well, that's up in the air as the translator or even YoshiP might not be aware of the acute differences when it was spoken of.