Quote Originally Posted by Sylvain View Post
However, SCH having many ogcd, if you clip absolutely every single ogcd, not only the Aetherflux spells, then you will see a major difference in your dps.
It makes me wonder if they could do something in 5.0 alike to the lenience we get with stutter-stepping, allowing oGCD animations to flow into GCDs earlier without cancelling them, cutting the maximal clipping time down from the average ~.7 seconds to .4 or less.

Of course, there are also just some animations which are stupidly (sometimes even to the point of self-contradiction, in the case of Swiftcast) long that could just be individually revised.

The ~.75s rule of thumb is accurate in most cases, but not all. Right now, on my 1.8s GCD Monk I can double-weave with just a bit of clipping between certain oGCDs (e.g. EF-SP) but that clipping is scarcely reduced by RoF's 15% Attack Speed penalty, when it should help massively; there may already be some hidden scaling going on behind everything. Whatever is, though, it's not enough.

While I don't want to remove the value of clip-conserving skills -- just make the a little less necessary while reducing their potency gap a tiny bit, til it's mostly based on mobility instead of equal parts that and oGCD access -- if we could reduce it to below .5s naturally, we'd hit a new breakpoint for reducing output loss on the 80% GCD casts like most ST healing spells and the like. Add a 20% cast speed reduction, reduced by 5% per rank, to Enochian and you'd be able to weave after Fire and Thunder III, as well, not just Firestarter and Thundercloud.