Surecast Enhancements, Please!

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Surecast
Allows you to move whilst casting and keeps your spells uninterrupted, however reduces damage and healing of spells by 35%
Permanent Buff, you turn it on and off like stances.

[Bhuni]

Surecast
Allows you to cast the next ability un-interrupted while moving.
- 30 second cool-down

Fair ability, good for both PvP/PvE. No ability should be designed for one.

Surecast.
Next spell is cast without interruption.
Duration: 10 seconds
Cooldown: 30 seconds
BLM onry trait: 15% chance Surecast will have no recast time.

[Felis]

Surecast
Allows you to move whilst casting and keeps your spells uninterrupted, however reduces damage and healing of spells by 35%
Permanent Buff, you turn it on and off like stances.

Also reduce walking speed while casting by 25% (the caster have to concentrate)

And you turn it only on like stances. It should go automatic off after a cast.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Eh, make it a perma buff that you can turn on and off. Allows you to cast on the move. However lowers potency of spells by 35%.

The trait can cut the penalty by 10%. Making it 25%.

[Drako]

I'm pretty sure the same limitation that makes you get interrupted when a mob moves 3 feet, will also prevent this kind of thing from being easily added. They'd have to fix this problem first before they could let us move and cast. I'd love to have it, like back in 1.0, they made it where we could move. Maybe they can one day, I'd like it. But for some reason I think that them giving bards a skill to stand still, is kind of a way to keep other dps from caring that they can't move. And likely would indicate them not worrying about a feature like this.

[Gunspec]

Surecast is bad because you usually shouldn't be getting hit as a caster, at least in group content. With the exception of a few endgame fights, it exists as something you can use if you think you MIGHT screw up in the next, what, 10 seconds?

How about modifying surecast so that it is prevents interrupt on one spell for the next minute? If the buff duration and the spell cooldown are the same, it essentially protects you from one interrupt per spell cooldown. You could keep it up constantly, not because you are planning on getting hit by something you should have dodged, but just in case you screw up.

[Yumi_umi]

Imo we should keep surecast its own thing and not some swiftcast hybrid cuz casters wanna become bards.
Surecast trait should be similar to equanamity ( tht pvp skill ).
It'll allow you to cast things with no interruptions (except movement i.e getting knocked back etc ) for 10 seconds.
But to make it a "trait" it'll allow u to cast thru debuffs i.e paralysis without interrupt. Imo it wouldn't be game breaking and it'll allow for more recovery. Handy for when dps or healers have paralysis and cannot get it debuffed. Most debuffs like mechanic paralysis lasts longer than 10 secs so ofc u'll want to try and do mechanics right.

So its obviously not a crucial skill to have but more so its optional JUST like how surecast is now.
That way casters still channel their casts & swiftcast gets to keep its identity.

[Atlaworks]

But... Surecast already IS swiftcast but less useful. The changes people propose are things that differentiate the two.

And it already is similar to Equanimity.... because they're the same thing. The only difference is that Surecast fades after one spell, and Equanimity lasts it's duration.

[Hyouretsuzan]

But... Surecast already IS swiftcast but less useful. The changes people propose are things that differentiate the two.

And it already is similar to Equanimity.... because they're the same thing. The only difference is that Surecast fades after one spell, and Equanimity lasts it's duration.

I think the problem is that it fades after one spell. Ideally, the best time to use Surecast is when you're casting a long spell like Flare. But when do you get a situation where you HAVE to use it? I play BLM as a sub and I never really get a chance to use that spell. It's just sitting on my hot bar. If it did work like equanimity, then it would have more use. But it does not. Look at Apocatastisis. That spell was useless for a BLM but they changed how it goes. Now it's a pretty damn good spell for tanks. We'll see how it goes in Heavensward. BLMs are getting a new rotation so we can see how that pans out.

[Sunako]

I think we do not need that kind of effect. We have plenty of instant cast and swiiftcast for moving. I think it is good as it is now. THere is plenty of situations where you can use it. Like in leviathan once you wanna dot tail, second cast get interrupted without surecast or once spumes explode your cast may get interrupted by damage without surecast. In shiva extreme if you stand still and take ice ring damage, you can keep casting with surecast but without it your cast can get interrupted by damage.