Spell speed up

[Shurrikhan]

Well it being a SS increase does technically more than increasing cast [speed][?]. That said, a reliable way to proc the buff is another alternative that I didn't mention but it still feels out of the control of the user really.

How do you mean? A 20% increase to spell speed, at base SS stat (~70 bonus), is a far cry from a 20% increase to casting speed (from 2.5 to 2.0 GCD, i.e. a BLM's dream proc). I don't think I've seen it cut more than .08 seconds personally, even with a lot more SS than I'd have liked.

[UBERHAXED]

How do you mean? A 20% increase to spell speed, at base SS stat (~70 bonus), is a far cry from a 20% increase to casting speed (from 2.5 to 2.0 GCD, i.e. a BLM's dream proc). I don't think I've seen it cut more than .08 seconds personally, even with a lot more SS than I'd have liked.

Casting speed does not change your global cool down. Also currently spell speed affects DoT damage, which is more noticeable on a class which uses 4-5 regularly for damage. The reason it is more valuable on BLM is because they have cast times longer than the GCD.

[Duelle]

I play almost every day as a Summoner and most of the time forget that this thing even exists because I have no choice of what happens when it procs, nor does it even influence my game play when it does. Also, Unless you are staring at your character's buff bar, you won't even know it happened. At least some animation around the player to alert them would be nice.

I haven't touched SMN since I got it to 50 in ARR, but I remember Spell Speed being this thing no SMN wanted (which is one point against Enhanced Pet Actions). The buff itself is funny because you do entirely forget about the proc and ask "wait, what was that and how does it happen?".

I'd be in favor of that trait getting replaced by something else.