Quote Originally Posted by Taika View Post
SS was never good for any healers before HW either. In HW they actually changed it to affect HoT and DoT so inThat leaves the other healer as the WHM. that way it's now better in theory. For BLM the reason to stack SS until certain point is their rotation (same with skill speed for DRG and WAR at least).
Let me correct you. SS was never good for the arcanist class rather than healers, since SMN only had four spells to cast once every 20ish seconds, one of them (Shadowflare) normally being swifted and another (Bio) being instant anyways, and SS would not benefit dots potency. SCH same story, SS wouldn't benefit their heals really since they had lustrates/shields and the fairy, leaving crit rate to be more effective. And yes, SS was awesome for WHM. Holies were spammed, medicas, stone 2s etc. SS and det was the way to go for WHM. HW made it so that now arcanists actually benefit with SS as you stated before. For BLMs also, SS gave them inmense firepower, yes their reason is their rotation, of course, what else?
I do agree with you though that everyone's gear decisions are their own. And in the end it does come up to how each of us feel comfortable with. Reliable enough to be a valid point? For me yes, after the diference I saw with and without SS.