The cast time on Stoneskin II

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If Stoneskin 2 would be castable in combat noone would even try to get an AST mainhealer (best example A6S between the bosses...it would be too OP). It is a balance thing isn't it? As SCH or AST you have 8 seperate casts I don't get why they even gave WHM this advantage... or they couldve made it for all classes the moment Granite Skin was removed -.-

Honestly, yes, all the healer classes should have access to SSII. It's not often that I get a group without a WHM, but waiting for a SCH and AST to fumble around casting SS in the whole party is a huge time sink, and can't be any fun for the SCH and AST. It's supposed to be a convenient spell, but 5s of cast time is anything but convenient.