Quote Originally Posted by Viridiana View Post
I find that extremely doubtful. I assume what you mean to say is that your cast time is 1.8s. Your GCD is your recast time, which is about 2.32 based on your lodestone gear. Your GCD is what would have to fall below 2.22s in the math I did above, because your recast time is what limits your healing throughput.
Yeah, pretty sure they mean their cast time. Which, seeing as heals have a base cast time of 2.0 seconds, that is only a 10% cast time reduction. If we were playing a game where you had to continuously cast heal spells, this would matter and could possibly be useful. We don't, though. My primary character was a white mage all the way up until Heavensward, when I switched to bard, which meant I was casting far more heals than my scholar partner was by raid meta. Even then, when I was pretty much healing all the time, I never once encountered a situation where I thought, "I really need to be able to cast 0.2 seconds faster." The primary reason white mages stack spell speed is because crit and det are just not that potent for them. Crit has potential to be, but it can also royally screw you sideways on agro generation in certain situations as a white mage, so you typically don't want to go balls to the wall with it unless you are going to be nuking a lot (like, you should probably always slap on crit gear if you have it for experts). Spell speed is just the stat that tends to suck the least for white mages, which is why they use it. Even being the ideal stat for them, it's still not very good. You could literally have +0 secondary stats from gear on white mage and barely notice the change in an actual raid situation. So, obviously spell speed isn't going to be that useful for a class where it is the LEAST optimal secondary to stack.