Quote Originally Posted by Nizzi View Post
Your entire fight timeline is not messed up in the way that it [SMN] is for RDM and BLM because it resets every 60s.
I assume you are aware its not actually flat since you also play summoner. But just merely as a teaching tool for others who are less familiar:

Aethercharge/Bahamut/Phoenix are not acutally flat cooldowns. They are in fact affected by how much spellspeed a summoner has. It starts at 60 seconds, but it can be lowered.

With my current 2398 spellspeed, from a max speed blades acumen and food and materia and non-savage/extreme speedgear, my summon bahamut/phoenix is on a 51.84 cooldown. Ruin is on a 1.29/2.16 for cast/recast. Summon Gem is 2.16.

For older content at their max level by hitting the speed cap values are:

In ARR (50): ruin is 1.25/2.09, summon gem is 2.09 recast, aethercharge is 50.16
In HW (60): ruin is 1.24/2.07, summon gem is 2.07 recast, dreadwyrm trance is 49.86
In SB (70): ruin is 1.25/2.09, summon gem is 2.09 recast, summon demi is 50.28
For SHB (80), as I don't believe I hit the speedcap, its: 1.27/2.11, summon gem is 2.11 recast, summon demi is 50.82

These parts of the job is seperate from the rest of it which is flat cooldowns like radiant aegis (60s) or searing light (120s).

To have it be the equivalent of a flat 60 for bahamut, you must have 0 spellspeed investment. Which means Ruin is 1.5/2.5 and Astral Impulse & Fountain of Fire for example are also 2.5 for their gcd.

To achieve a 2.45 for AI & FoF, it should be somewhere around a 220 spellspeed investment, which means Bahamut/Phoenix has a 58.98 second cooldown. To have about a 1.45 second cooldown for ruin 3 with a now 2.43 recast time, that is around a 396 spellspeed investment, and Bahamut/Phoenix is 58.38.

Like using the 58.38 timer in content that takes 10 mins, the summoner by the end will have about an approximate 15 second lead compared to the rest of their party. This lead number becomes greater when the summon/aethercharge has a lower cooldown.

Like if I am in stormblood content, with 50.28 cooldown, I have about a 9.5s lead that can compound over just a 6 minute fight into a 57 second lead, meaning I am already into my 8th Demi-Bahamut while a person at 0 speed is just about to get into their 6th Demi-Bahamut.