Stoneskin II

[deos]

stoneskin 2 has double the cast time and MP cost as stoneskin 1
still cuts down casting to half (light group) or even quarter (full group) to get all buffed - just sweet <3

[StrangeBard]

It does cut the prep time by a good amount; however, as I said earlier you can just Swiftcast it meaning the cast is basically instantaneous and you have given everyone in your party Stoneskin. So impatient tanks should rejoice as we now have a way to buff the party without cutting into their time.

[firstsin]

Why is the spell not an instant cast?

[VanilleFang]

Why is the spell not an instant cast?

It was a quality of life change... Why is that everyone seems to come up with something about this to complain about? I literally saw two people complaining in game because they thought it was stupid that it's a lv. 50 spell. Really?

While we're at it make Protect instant too. And Raise.

[mdha02]

Why is the spell not an instant cast?

It is! Make a macro:

/macroicon "Stoneskin II"
/ac "Swiftcast" <me>
/wait 1
/ac "Stoneskin II" <me>

It's insta-cast!

[firstsin]

It was a quality of life change... Why is that everyone seems to come up with something about this to complain about? I literally saw two people complaining in game because they thought it was stupid that it's a lv. 50 spell. Really?

While we're at it make Protect instant too. And Raise.

It is! Make a macro:

/macroicon "Stoneskin II"
/ac "Swiftcast" <me>
/wait 1
/ac "Stoneskin II" <me>

It's insta-cast!

My reason for asking why it is not instant cast is simply cos the reason why the spell was added was to let WHM SS the entire party before a raid. So making the spell instant cast IMO should have been idea.

[mdha02]

If you use Swiftcast at the beginning of whatever you are doing, it will be ready by the time you need it. Even without Swiftcast it is still faster than using Stoneskin on the entire party. Let's just remember to be happy they listened to us.

[Sebazy]

The cast time makes sense once you consider how spamable it'd be in 4 man dungeons between pulls.

A slightly quicker cast would have been nice but all told I'm happy with it.

[Artiste]

I'm ok with how it is now, I just put it at begining of dongeon, and before the bosses, everytime with swiftcast (not using this a lot anyway)

I dont need to cast it beetwin pull of monsters, the dps rarelly lose thier stoneskin, and if they do, whatever, that's not a big deal.

[firstsin]

The cast time for SS2 is quite long. And most tanks cannot stop running longer then 1.5 seconds between pulls.