Quote Originally Posted by Wintersandman View Post
But the GCD is the same. Yeah you can look at cast time but the GCD's still line up. So cast time doesn't make too much of a difference when the GCD's line up perfectly.
That extra 1s of time is time for movement and/or an oGCD. As AST yesterday, a BLM was trying to nuke me. I'd just Malefic, then step behind a tree before any of his nukes could finish casting. He literally could not finish a single spell cast without swiftcast. By which point I had nuked him to 50%. That extra full second of movement time is MASSIVE when you're using it for positioning.