Your Opinion on the Current State of Job Identity/Balance in 6.4?

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(You're right about Medica 2, though. I guess Holy IS the only WHM spell left that takes up the entire GCD at this point.)

I forgot to mention it yesterday evening, but Raise is probably a better example.

You've probably had those moments where you're hard casting a raise, a mechanic ground marker targets you but you manage to successfully squeeze out the raise whilst dodging the marker before the raise cast ends? That's slidecasting in it's purest form.

To answer your questions at Rein:

1) Yes for the most part. When the EU servers switched location it changed the timing we needed to use to slide cast, it didn't make as big a difference to the distance we could move mid cast as you might expect, but it did move the window enough to need to adjust a little.

2) Of course, with 1 second cast abilities you barely have to stop moving once you get it down. The window for movement is longer, but I'll also argue that the act of slidecasting primarily describes the point in time at which you are moving whilst you still have a cast bar going, thus slide-casting. Technically, you are not casting whilst moving between casts whilst the GCD is still ticking over.

3) Oop, answered in the above. To repeat. No, slide casting refers to the act of moving whilst you have a cast bar up without actually interrupting or dropping the cast. Moving between casts whilst the GCD is on cooldown isn't technically slide casting, rather that is moving between casts. The goal of slidecasting is to increase the amount of movement you have whilst casting irrespective of the cast time vs GCD. You can slide cast Esuna, Holy or Raise. I guess this is confusing because modern short Glare etc cast times effectively just have the old slide cast window baked in, but that doesn't mean you can't use the old methods to increase that movement window further. It's still a relevant habit, just not quite as critical as it used to be.

4) Of course, watch a replay of a top level BLM playing and you'll see them using slidecasting to adjust their position plenty.

5) I mean BLM has a LOT of mobility tools now, I'd be all for getting a slice of that on healers but I suspect SE gave us shorter cast glares so they wouldn't have to.

As an example, that random Euphrosyne clip I linked a while ago:

https://youtu.be/6usab1LjtYE?t=44

@45 seconds in, shuffling around slidecasting, not entirely sure why, probably out of boredom tbh