Blood Weapon

[Jhett_Magnum]

A "Spell" in FFXIV doesn't mean "something with a cast bar".

Unleash, Unmend, Grit and Abyssal Drain are all spells. Instant cast spells. If BW reduces spells' GCD, it's to reduce the delay on those 4 as well as weaponskills, doesn't mean we'll be getting any form of dark magic sooner or later (but who knows ?).

You can check the action types here.

I never said spells are just cast times. Which is why I was confused when:

Abyssal Drain
Spell

Abyssal drain is a spell, but only effected by spell recast times. The post is about

Reduces weaponskill cast time and recast time, spell cast time and recast time, and auto-attack delay by 10%....

It just occurred to me that our spell cast times are reduced during BW. Does this mean we’ll be able to spell cast black magic in the ....

[Megguido]

Snip.

Oh well, didn't see it that way, my bad.

As others said already, that's a pretty generic description for a GCD speed boost. They could add a spell with a cast time on DRK akin to BRD's Requiem or SAM's Midare (but spell instead of weaponsill). Who knows. If I was a dev, I would definitely put that in Blood Weapon, for two reasons:
- if I ever want to add a spell with a cast-time on DRK in the future
- could be easier to tie cast time and recast time together: it makes no sense to shorten recast time (GCD) but not the cast time itself.