Quote Originally Posted by execlinca View Post
I don't think Holy's cast time is an issue - it's working as intended. Holy has a stun while the other AoE damage spells for healers do not, and its very OP for that. It makes dungeon healing much clunkier, but ironically makes lilies better as you can use them to weave. If they reduced Holy's cast they would remove the stun and I think no one wants that.
Let me tell you why the cast time on Holy not being adjusted is a problem. The stun is NOT indefinite. You get 3 stuns before enemies become immune and at that point you are constantly having to move in order to avoid any potential AoEs that are thrown at your position, meaning that because of the 2.5s cast time, you usually end up having to cancel your AoE in order to not get hit and potentially killed in a trash pull. None of the other healers have this issue. SCH and SGE's are instant cast and can get out of the way no problem and AST is ranged and was never a problem to begin with. WHM loses out on damage every time it has to move for its AoE and for the healer that's entire purpose is damage is crap design, especially when it's already bad enough that you have to wait an extra second for the actual stun to take effect due to the animation delay.

I fail to see how exactly a 1.5s cast time on Holy would be OP.
The recast timer is still 2.5s so other than getting that stun out 1s earlier, it doesn't really change anything.