Starting healing with AST... Did I bite off too much?

[DarkmoonVael]

Lightspeed doesn't reduce your GCD, it just upfront your spells in 2.5sec. So Asp Helios would have 0.5sec cast time and would still have the Global Cooldown, wich is 2.5sec. If you'll have to deal with GCD anyway, might as well cast Asp.Bene while Lightspeed is active (not before) to save mp, then you'd spend 5 sec only to cast Both Asp spells while lightspeed is on...

Um, well going to have to be blunt here.

My response was to your suggestion of flat out replacing swiftcast with lightspeed in DestroyerofLargePlanets post. This catagorically leaves lightspeed up for at least 2 gravities. Its is a simple fact that this happens. The only way this does not happen with that placement of lightspeed is if you then wait for it to drop off before using gravity.

What i responded to was the suggestion of Synestry>A.Ben>lightspeed>AHelios>CU>Clerics>Gravity spam. This leave approx 3.5-4 between Lightspeed, A.Helios (triggers GCD), CU for wheel of fate, going into cleric stance, then hitting your first gravity. Note the only thing that triggers the GCD is A.Helios. So say 0.5 secs for A.Helios, 3 for Wheel of fate, 0.5 for Cleric Stance, then you have all the time left on Lightspeed.

What i was not commenting on, and never have commented on is the post you made after placing Lightspeed before A.Ben, which is a different usage of Lightspeed compared to the post i responded to.