Quote Originally Posted by Izsha View Post
They never said spell speed will affect dot tics. They just said they are revamping skill/spell speed system. They never said how. There are a number of ways to tweak SS.

New skills for every class, not to mention new classes all together means new synergy within and between classes. Balance will shift but we have no idea how yet.
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When working with buffs, they wanted to avoid the situation like if FFXI where haste was overpowered, so skill/spellspeed has been mostly insignificant in the 2.x series. They will be going through a huge change in 3.0. DoTs will be directly influenced by SS.