Should Skill Speed/Spell Speed affect certain abilities?

[wereotter]

Skill Speed also effects the amount of damage that auto attacks deal.

Spell Speed, I've been saying for a while, should have been set to increase MP regeneration in addition to cast time, but now that piety does that, I don't think we'll be seeing that adjustment to the skill.

[LauraAdalena]

Skill Speed also effects the amount of damage that auto attacks deal.

And DOT damage.

That being said, if they were to decrease the cooldown on like Gauss Round and Ricochet on MCH I'd be willing to see if that would make it more worth while.

[ArianeEwah]

Skill Speed also effects the amount of damage that auto attacks deal.

Spell Speed, I've been saying for a while, should have been set to increase MP regeneration in addition to cast time, but now that piety does that, I don't think we'll be seeing that adjustment to the skill.

You could also reduce MP cost on spells, but as MP is designed right now I don't see any issues with it... that means until you start to rez... but that's the MP cost of rez spells, SpS would barely change it.

And yes, SkS affects AAs, afaik the same way Det does. But Det also increases your OVERALL dmg - everything from weaponskills/spells (GCDs), healing spells, oGCDs and DoT damage. SkS on the other hand does not affect the (initial) dmg on your GCD or oGCDs, but the recast time on GCDs. Yet, it doesn't affect the recast time of your oGCD-damage actions. It's always Det > SkS; after you get a comfy GCD. Then again, those 'comfy' GCDs are mostly for 60/90s buff windows - e.g. DRG 2.45s or 2.38s for 90s buff windows (actual BiS GCD numbers), or GNB 2.4s for 60s buff windows. But many 30s actions - such as Jump - just don't align well with this.... well, you could get 2.31s SkS, but you would lose too much dmg by doing that.
Actions in buff windows do less dmg with SkS than they would with Det, and buff windows are your highest source of DPS.