Quote Originally Posted by Oohlalaheals View Post
My little BLM is only level 28 so not really even a BLM yet so I don't have first hand experience with this. However, I can see as a caster with long cast times how their DPS would suffer in movement intensive fights. You move, you go to cast, and right before its fully cast you have to move again, happens to me as a healer all the time. Perhaps rather than a shorter cd on Swiftcast an addition of something like AST's Lightspeed would be appropriate here. Its one of my favorite skills AST has actually Its not instant, but it lets you get fast casts off while having to move.
Quote Originally Posted by kingatlas View Post
As a caster (blm especially) standing still and casting is the focus.
We can stutter step, and we have swiftcast.

I was thinking if we could reduce swiftcasts cooldown by half,
it would allow for a lot more movement.

It wouldn't raise DPS a whole lot, but it would help with the mechanics and the trends they are heading towards. (see sephi X)

Now I know that the dungeons are doable as a caster like blm, but this would just add more usefulness to swiftcast, without creating a tonne of other problems.

I don't see any negatives at this time, but I don't play as a healer, so if there is any real negatives anyone can bring up i'm all ears aswell.
If they made BLM more mobile then they would have to take a nerf to damage. BLMs have been buffed in the past to compensate when mobility was an issue.