How does everyone feel about skill speed?

[raikage]

I think they should remove it and bring haste back skill speed is not useful to any class at the moment.

[StreamMonster]

Mnk uses skill speed? You literally made this post before thinking about your topic for 5 seconds.

[Begeta]

I think they should remove it and bring haste back skill speed is not useful to any class at the moment.

Unlike what seems to be the majority of posters, I try not to make smart ass comments in a juvenile attempt to amuse myself and the other trolls whenever someone posts something that shows a clear lack of forethought...

That being said... would it help if you looked at skill speed as haste?

[BlackShroudMercs]

Think what he means is skill speed/spell speed doesn't detract much time from the GCD. I sorta agree, seems like you can get skill/spell speed pretty high and the difference is pretty minor IMO..

It is kind of a waste..

[kysulli]

Sucks. Wastes TP. Get crit instead.

I'd like to see what the developers plan to make the game easier for melee does for TP drain.

[NefGP]

Except skill speed isn't even true haste, as it does nothing for auto-attacks or TP generation like in FFXI.

It simply allows you to spam your attacks (but not abilities which is a key distinction) more often. Really this is only good with a BRD present otherwise you're just blowing through your TP more quickly rather than increasing your damage output directly.

[Keoregh]

Spell Speed is very useless yes ...
More than 420 in stats and I style need 2.38s to cast, so 400 in one stat to cast 0.17 faster ... Barely noticable. Not sure it is btw, I can't really test because it's on every part of my stuff.
Can you imagine what 400 in another stat could give to your char ? ^^

[EasymodeX]

Skill speed is fine. People cry too much without having a good grasp of mechanics.

[BlackShroudMercs]

Oh well I guess its fine then..the authority on skill speed came by and deemed it so ..

[pandabearcat]

In theory every single TP using class will run out of TP in a reasonable timeframe if they require constant uptime on target.

Thus, it is worthless if fights were like, 10-15 minutes of constant fighting.

Since they are not, we cannot conclude that skill speed is "worthless" but its pretty damn bad.

The other issue is "skill speed lets you get more attacks in for a cooldown". My take is it takes way too much skill speed, and you're better off with another stat.

The other main consideration is whether more skill speed will let monks (maybe dragoons too?) get another attack in inside their maintain rotation. I do not play either so don't know the breakpoints.

But the easy way to think about it is this: would you rather have all your offstats in skill speed? Or all your skill speed in another offstat?

And the answer to that question is easy. Thus, skillspeed is terrible. I won't say worthless, but its pretty bad.