Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
Arguable.
While some jobs, really only NIN, are negatively effected by speed buffs, extra speed unequivocally results in extra DPS. MCH and SMN may also have their rotations affected by speed, but this can be adjusted to.
The reason why a lot of jobs don't like melding speed is because it doesn't compare to Crit or Det which you're trading it against, but free speed is still a bonus.
For example, if increasing your speed by 10% means you clip your GCDs by 10%... then that's just no net gain, it's not a hindrance at all, you're just back to square one. It's only a loss in the context where you could have had a flat potency boost instead of that superfluous speed increase. But there are many cases where that speed increase won't be negated by clipping, and plenty of jobs or even portions of jobs that will benefit from it.

Completely disagree with MP. With MP and TP merging, MP management is likely to become more important, and important for a lot more jobs.
Speed and MP buffs should go hand in hand, because the main drawback for extra speed is consuming more resources, which is why WHM gets the speed and MP buffs, which also symbolically mesh well with wind and water elements.
Speed buffs can cripple NIN and MCH but they can also negatively impact SMN, RDM, DRG, MNK, PLD and DRK all to varying degrees and for different reasons while also requiring a much larger change in order to equate to similar dps gains that would been seen by outright dps or crit buffs. This is why Arrow is at its very best a low-rent spread card for when there is nothing else. It's true more GCD means more damage but once you factor in things like buff misalignment, resource loss and clipping you mitigate the negligible dps gains.

You'd get more tossing an Arrow on a BLM directly or on a WAR as their IR window approaches to give them a sixth fell cleave.

I get what you're going for thematically but unless the majority of jobs receive major overhauls which cause them to lean into speed buffs more this is still without a doubt the worst of the proposed reworks and still definitely leaves it as the leftover healer.