Quote Originally Posted by dday3six View Post
No Spell Speed does not lower your DPS on SMN, it just does not provide quite the DPS increase to SMN as it does to BLM. However what does actually lower DPS is having to use Energy Drain more and Ruin II less, to avoid flooring your MP. Increasing Pet damage does nothing for the MP issue.
Spell Speed actually lowers DPS in long duration fights(Which are the fights that matters anyway). Since spell speed reduces GCD, that means that it will make you go OOM quicker which decreases your DPS.