Healers, then and now:

[Connor]

If we really want to talk about useless cards, remember when Spear was a cool-down reduction that only affected cool-downs already used lol, so it would only work if you like, just so happened to use it on someone who’d used a cool-down lol. That effect didn’t last very at all before they replaced it

[ty_taurus]

If we really want to talk about useless cards, remember when Spear was a cool-down reduction that only affected cool-downs already used lol, so it would only work if you like, just so happened to use it on someone who’d used a cool-down lol. That effect didn’t last very at all before they replaced it

Actually it was the other way around. It only reduced the cooldown of OGCDs used during the duration of Spear, which could actually be incredibly powerful if timed correctly. I don't recall exactly, but I believe you could reduce the cooldown of Hallowed Ground by an entire minute with Spear. But that came with several problems: it desychs rotations aggressively when used effectively, and also requires a lot of team communication to use properly, which the longer you held onto Spear, the longer it'd take to get Draw's cooldown ticking again. It would actually have been way smoother if it also reduced the cooldowns of used OGCDs like you suggest as it wouldn't require highly specific situation knowledge and knowledge of every other job's kits to actually know when and what it affects to best utilize it. Imagine trying to decipher which of our 18 jobs most benefits from a card during your 30 second windows, 1 minute windows, 90 second windows, 2 minute windows, and 3 minute windows back during late SB and ShB.

[Sebazy]

If we really want to talk about useless cards, remember when Spear was a cool-down reduction that only affected cool-downs already used lol, so it would only work if you like, just so happened to use it on someone who’d used a cool-down lol. That effect didn’t last very at all before they replaced it

That's the card I was thinking of!

I pretty much got threatened with literal violence if I used it on some of my DPS lol =(

It had theoretical potential but for the most part, it just throw rotations and cooldown alignments out of the window causing things to pop when they didn't expect them.