How about reducing swiftcasts cooldown by 50%

[Jetstream_Fox]

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.

You needed to take WM off for that? Did you not DoT, use Bloodletter/blunt arrow/feint/critical heavy shot? If you did you'd never have to take it off. I've ran Neverreap likely hundreds of times and never even dropped WM. I mean I even went into those runs and drop Grit on my DRK and blow through the bosses before the vit rework.

Anyone who played a caster in 2.0 and now 3.0 be it BRD/MCH or BLM/SMN should know how to keep their DPS up at this point and be effective even with the mobility handicap.

Yoshi many be the director but he has no clue how to make these classes work, you can look no further than Healers being marginalized as DPS and WAR having way more utility than the other two tanks. It doesn't matter how much he tries to rework classes he always messes something up. It wouldn't matter if swiftcast has reduced cast, you still wouldn't move when it's on cooldown. Or let's go further and ask why Swiftcast isn't put on MCH/BRD since we are casters now right? Yoshi may have made the game, but it's the players who know how the classes function properly.

[xLucia]

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I only turned off WM at the part where the boss goes shield mode and runs around the platform (when u need to kill adds). I always get hit by either a tornado or the boss himself if I had WM on at that point because i wanted to finish my cast first before moving. This happened especially when neverreap had just released. I just found it easier to turn WM off :P Now I don't have that problem as much. I just named that fight as an example of a situation where u could turn it off Never said that u had to, only how it's design was intended. But in the end I think people should do whatever works best for them to pull as much dps as they can

That will be my final reply as WM & bard doesnt really have anything to do with the original topic :P I just replied to someone who brought it in.