[BLM Suggestion] Raise spell using Foul stack.

[Kabooa]

BLM does have an insta-cast in the form of Scathe, which is essentially their Ruin II. Not to mention having access to Swift and Triple cast, potentially giving BLM four insta-cast spells in a row. With that and the other possible processes, BLM does actually have quite a few opportunities to get around animation lock, but it could do with a slight tweak.

Scathe is worthless.

Swift, Triple, and Sharpcast are our uptime skills. Using them to throw up an addle is frankly worse than just taking the .5 lock to apply it.

[Kurando]

snip

Perhaps they are worthless, but to declare otherwise that BLM has no real insta-casts is a lie which was my point. Scathe is no different to Ruin II, the only difference being the latter has the change to process, in which case Scathe could do with something similar to make it more use worthy.

It's easy to say something is part of uptime skills, but unless the BLM is very lucky and doesn't get targeted by anything and it's quite likely their rotation could go out of the window. You may have little point at that stage to Swift or Triplecast your spells (use Scathe and other processes) to keep up the attacks whilst dodging to the mechs.

[EllieShadeflare]

Perhaps they are worthless, but to declare otherwise that BLM has no real insta-casts is a lie which was my point. Scathe is no different to Ruin II, the only difference being the latter has the change to process, in which case Scathe could do with something similar to make it more use worthy.

It's easy to say something is part of uptime skills, but unless the BLM is very lucky and doesn't get targeted by anything and it's quite likely their rotation could go out of the window. You may have little point at that stage to Swift or Triplecast your spells (use Scathe and other processes) to keep up the attacks whilst dodging to the mechs.

I don't think anyone was implying BLM lacked INSTANT casts, what most people were explaining was that BLM is stuck on the GCD. You know, the recast time of 2.5s, which changes depending on speed?

This feels like a slight distraction from the points being brought up about the BLM's reliance on the GCD. And you're probably not playing BLM the best you can if you're rotation is screwing up.