How can I reach my full potential as a healer?

[Kelya]

Be careful, when you cast Embrace and interrupt it with Stay or whatever, fairy stops casting but the GCD is lost. That means you can NOT use another Embrace of fairy on other ppl during the time fairy would have casted normally. Now that I noticed this, I just don't try to interrupt Embrace when I want to Embrace another ppl since I would have the choice to wait for nothing to be casted or to wait for an Embrace of the automatic fairy. However you still can use the others spells after interrupting Embrace.

Same for Whispering dawn unfortunately, if you cast it and interrupt it the same way, the fact is you loose the CD because even if you didn't use it finally, you need to wait for the next 60s. But this doesn't share the GCD so if you interrupt it, you can still chain it by an Embrace.

[subteraneanbird]

Owner spell speed does not affect pets. This has been stated many times by S-E. If you're a pet class you want crit regardless because your crit does affect your pet and gives you spell speed.

[synesthetic]

I don't recall them saying that, so if you could point me towards a source, that would be appreciated.

They really screwed up then, if that was their intent. Because as I said, it is still affecting my fairies at least when I summon them with different amounts of spell speed equipped. The tooltips just aren't reflecting it anymore.
I even found a bug report of someone else who noticed it sooner. Probably happened with patch 2.2 then.

[Kelya]

I agree with synesthetic.
I just macroed a "/pac Whispering Dawn" followed by a "/wait 60" and then a "/p Time to recast Whispering Dawn guys !" And the result was, with 580 SS, Whispering Dawn was up 3-4s BEFORE my /p text.

Something is wrong with this spell x)

[Artiste]

The fact of asking " how can I do better " made that you gonna ged better and reach your own potentiel (not everyone as same potential, we need to accept this, I have a potential not bad, not I never gonna be as good as some players can be)
You just need to play, and cotninue to think " how can this be improve " and you gonna figure it out by yourself, trust me.

[Lovemonster]

I did my own testing with spell speed and here are my results:

Spell speed does not seem to affect embrace cast or recast (I tested this with ridiculous spell speed 800+ vs base 341 spell speed, the number of embraces cast in a period of time was almost identical - slight difference unlikely due to spell speed, probably lag). This is most likely tied to garuda egi or something to balance its DPS?

Spell speed does affect whispering dawn cast and recast (this may be something the developers forgot to change as they changed the tooltips) but the effect is quite minor (3 seconds earlier than rouse finished, and since they are often paired this isn't really a benefit at all)

Spell speed does not affect fey covenant, fey light, fey glow, fey illumination as they are instant casts and their cooldowns are unaffected by spell speed (similar to abilities like rouse, virus, eye for an eye)

If this is all true, then det is probably more favourable than spell speed as we have instant heals and dot damage will be increased by det but not spell speed. But if embrace is affected by spell speed then, due to selene's fey glow, spell speed may be better.