Quote Originally Posted by Mortex View Post
But it doesn’t. You are only forced to precast if another aoe comes right after the first one. And if not you have ages to heal the dmg done from it.
Having healed ex and savage in heavensward, fights often had damage happening in movement heavy phases, so if you didnt want to use your swiftcast you had to know how to precast gcd heals. Not to mention their cast times were longer (asp helios and medica ii had a 3s cast time).

An example is a11s where photon brings everyone to 1hp, and then immediately after theres a raidwide aoe, but you also have to dodge several floor lasers. there wasnt any time to cast a gcd heal so you would precast.

"but lightspeed!" lightspeed made your dps spells do 25% less damage, so if you wanted to maximize your dps you wanted to avoid using it.


Precasting was indeed a skill worth having, especially if you wanted to spend as much time in cleric stance as possible, and its a dimension of gameplay thats all but gone