Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
I don't see why Haste should be problematic.
They could literally have named Lightspeed Haste and no one would have thought anything was off about it.

They were probably thinking of it as a party buff, like the old Arrow card buff on demand.

The thing is though, a personal speed buff like Lightspeed would probably make it the fastest magical dps, and RDM already has that spot, so how much faster would it have to be?
So while Haste itself should be possible, it doesn't sound like the best idea given what we already have.
Haste is problematic because the more ways they add to increase speed, the harder it becomes to balance. FFXI had this issue where Haste became king, and was still king after they had to create ways to limit it.

The problem arises due to the nature of reducing delay between actions. At the extreme end of it, going from 98% delay reduction to 99% delay reduction, a mere 1% increase, makes you go from 50x speed up to 100x speed.