How about reducing swiftcasts cooldown by 50%

[whythehate]

(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.

Seph ex isn't really a hard fight for blm, its just learning where to stand.

Take for instance the beginning of P3, there is actually time get 1 fire cast off before you need to move for twister. So you just do your F1 opener here, F3P to get into position of orb and burst away. The only downside is 50/50 chance your going to be under the right orb, so theres a chance leylines isn't going to be fully utilised.

The only part where the movement causes an issue is the knockback stage of P3 but every job has an issue here.

With each kill I do, im noticing things i can do differently to increase dps. My first run 1000 dps, then 1050. Im up to consistent 1250dps now after 8 kills, with a few more kills i should be able to start hitting 1400+ quite easily.

[xLucia]

Never, you never take off WM. As much as I hate WM you lose two of the most important skills the class has added.

That's actually not true. Yoshi himself said in one of the live letters than WM was designed to use only when you're stationairy and turn it off when you have to move alot. For example, the last boss in neverreap needs quite some moving as he goes around with his shield hitting anyone on his way, that would be a moment where ur better off disabling WM so you can run away while still attacking the adds. In movement heavy fights it's more of a DPS loss to leave it on and not being able to attack, than to turn it off for the heavy movement period. I noticed this firsthand on my bard.

On topic: I wouldn't mind a shortened CD for swiftcast. More than once I'm in a group where people die more often than swiftcast's current CD would allow :P On the other hand this would probably mean there's going to be a compensation nerf for some classes.

[DarkmoonVael]

On a BLM maybe through a trait.

On a healer, it would be a little too OP. Being able to instaraise or negate the aspect of healing while moving more frequently would be too much.

[mosaicex]

That's actually not true. Yoshi himself said in one of the live letters than WM was designed to use only when you're stationairy and turn it off when you have to move alot. For example, the last boss in neverreap needs quite some moving as he goes around with his shield hitting anyone on his way, that would be a moment where ur better off disabling WM so you can run away while still attacking the adds. In movement heavy fights it's more of a DPS loss to leave it on and not being able to attack, than to turn it off for the heavy movement period. I noticed this firsthand on my bard.

On topic: I wouldn't mind a shortened CD for swiftcast. More than once I'm in a group where people die more often than the swiftcast current CD would allow :P On the other hand this would probably mean there's going to be a compensation nerf for some classes.

YoshiP also said WAR was fine in 2.0. YoshiP also said that Egi Glamour is coming soon. YoshiP said many things, not all of them is true.

[xLucia]

YoshiP also said WAR was fine in 2.0. YoshiP also said that Egi Glamour is coming soon. YoshiP said many things, not all of them is true.

Well you would think the game director knows what hes talking about :P He's on the inside job of the game after all. I do believe it's true that WM was designed that way, there's no reason for yoshi to lie about that. It's just not how it's used in reality :P

[Felis]

Lower Swiftcast CD if it increase the OCD of the next spell to balance it out (making the time between the 1st and 3rd spell the same as if the 2 spells before it were cast with no Swiftcast)

[ElHeggunte]

60 seconds is already short for something that has so much utility. Swiftcast is powerful enough that they wouldn't just lower the CD and call it a day, they're going to wind up nerfing it (or you) in some other manner to compensate. Or like others have mentioned it would probably wind up being a BLM trait.

[ruskie]

For example, the last boss in neverreap needs quite some moving as he goes around with his shield hitting anyone on his way, that would be a moment where ur better off disabling WM so you can run away while still attacking the adds. In movement heavy fights it's more of a DPS loss to leave it on and not being able to attack, than to turn it off for the heavy movement period. I noticed this firsthand on my bard.

I only turned it off like the first one or two times I was in that boss fight. After that it's all about awareness and positioning and you can play the full fight with it on. After each cast you have a bit of time to move so can always adjust position a bit. You don't need to be running all over the place.

And again Feint if you need to move for a gcd or two. No fight has really needed more movement than that so far if properly pre positioned.

[xLucia]

I only turned it off like the first one or two times I was in that boss fight. After that it's all about awareness and positioning and you can play the full fight with it on. After each cast you have a bit of time to move so can always adjust position a bit. You don't need to be running all over the place.

And again Feint if you need to move for a gcd or two. No fight has really needed more movement than that so far if properly pre positioned.

I know, i personally just found it easier to not deal with WM's movement restricton at that point of the fight :P

[Luxea]

I'm fine with the current cooldown. Due to alternating use of Swiftcast and Lightspeed on AST, I'm already doing 360s as a healer unless people are topped off and I can DPS. To lesser extents, I'm able to do the same on WHM and SCH. I can also do 360s on SMN until Dreadwyrm trance...making BLM the only class where Swiftcast is "too long CD".

When they remove the cast time for BRD and MCH, I may actually support this idea though...til then, it makes no sense why an archer and a gunner has less mobility than 4 caster classes.

Edit:I'll be kind enough to add, "turning off minuet" doesn't count since this is something that subtracts a significant amount of dps from our expected dps output, whereas no stance switching is necessary for AST, SMN, WHM, SCH to dance around the boss room while performing their primary function (when not DPSing with cleric [healers]).