Dear Devs, you wanna perfect healing spell balance? Easy!

[AlBhedMoog]

Pick a fight with any Elemental Sprite in the world. Their cast times are very quick

... or should I add: almost instant cast?!

... if they made our heals "instant" without global cooldown/etc, they wouldn't have enough time to cycle to the right target compared to mouseover.

We don't complain about global cooldowns; please reread this thread again for more information.
And, MP management is much more user fiendly than dorky casting times :/.

youre plan wrong. I play scholar and i can do all these things easily in the hardest raid in the game, Coil. As for WHM they are very powerful. Heres a tip, get quickcast.

Your comment is pointless :/.
Scholars do have pets who eat up all the enmity ...

WHM/CNJ are getting all the enmity directly :/.

[Raminax]

... or should I add: almost instant cast?!

You really only hear what you want to hear, don't you?

[Kyomih]

No, no no no. NO.
We don't need more insta cast WE already have Benediction and Swiftcast is on a 1 min timer. That is more than enough.
I love managing my enmity and I love estimating and planning with my cast times.

Changes to mechanics like that would make a lot of fights totally trivial. I like a challenge, thank you very much
Or imagine..if mobs and bosses you fight would have instant heals too, not cool..

[Outlawstar15a2]

I think White Mage spells either need a noticeable shortening of the cast times. Or make Spell Speed do more then lower the global cooldown... Maybe both the Global cooldown and cast time. Also Spell speed scales very poorly in late game and except for Presence of Mind White Mages have no mechanic to lower cast time itself and PoM is not spammable it has a five minute cooldown. I have full DL armor and accessories and my relic. And when I heal for FC mates base cast time for Cure 1 and 2 is two seconds, Cure 3 is 2.5 seconds and raise is 8 seconds... Yeah, cast times should have a stat mechanic that allows me to shorten it. Now grant it raise is useless against Titan as the person will only die on the next Tumult but that's not the point of this post.

[Alu79]

I think White Mage spells either need a noticeable shortening of the cast times. Or make Spell Speed do more then lower the global cooldown... Maybe both the Global cooldown and cast time. Also Spell speed scales very poorly in late game and except for Presence of Mind White Mages have no mechanic to lower cast time itself and PoM is not spammable it has a five minute cooldown. I have full DL armor and accessories and my relic. And when I heal for FC mates base cast time for Cure 1 and 2 is two seconds, Cure 3 is 2.5 seconds and raise is 8 seconds... Yeah, cast times should have a stat mechanic that allows me to shorten it. Now grant it raise is useless against Titan as the person will only die on the next Tumult but that's not the point of this post.

What? Those cast times you stated are base cast times before spell speed is factored in. If you are in fact in full DL+relic, take a good look at your cast times because they will be less than full cast time/gcd as spell speed affects both cast times and the gcd.

[Mercuie]

At first I thought this post was a joke. I pride myself on being able to heal the party, heal myself, move out of AoE's and if I'm not feeling lazy, Cleric Stance and DPS a bit. In fact it gives me a bit of an ego, especially in Titan HM. WHM is fine. And if you're really having to blow a ton of heals, your party isn't doing it right...