Surecast is a Healer and Magical Ranged DPS role action from Final Fantasy XIV. It allows spells to be cast without interruption and nullifies most knockback and draw-in effects.

Mechanics

Mechanics

Grants Surecast to self for 6 seconds Prevents spells from being interrupted by damage; does not prevent interruption from any other sources Nullifies most knockback and draw-in effects

Affected spells

Role actions Repose Sleep White Mage Cure Cure II Cure III Glare Glare III Holy Holy III Medica Medica II Medica III Raise Stone II Stone III Stone IV Scholar Adloquium Broil Broil II Broil III Broil IV Concitation Physick Resurrection Ruin Succor Summon Eos Astrologian Aspected Helios Ascend Benefic Benefic II Fall Malefic Gravity Gravity II Helios Helios Conjunction Malefic Malefic II Malefic III Malefic IV Sage Diagnosis Dosis Dosis II Dosis III Egeiro Pneuma Prognosis Black Mage Blizzard Blizzard II Blizzard III Blizzard IV Despair Fire Fire II Fire III Fire IV Flare Flare Star Foul Freeze High Blizzard II High Fire II Sleep Summoner Outburst Physick Resurrection Ruby Catastrophe Ruby Disaster Ruby Outburst Ruby Rite Ruby Ruin Ruby Ruin II Ruby Ruin III Ruin Ruin II Ruin III Slipstream Summon Carbuncle Tri-disaster Red Mage Jolt Jolt II Jolt III Impact Scatter Veraero Veraero II Veraero III Vercure Verfire Verraise Verstone Verthunder Verthunder II Verthunder III Pictomancer Aero in Green Aero II in Green Blizzard in Cyan Blizzard II in Cyan Claw Motif Fire in Red Fire II in Red Hammer Motif Maw Motif Pom Motif Rainbow Drip Starry Sky Motif Stone in Yellow Stone II in Yellow Thunder in Magenta Thunder II in Magenta Water in Blue Water II in Blue Wing Motif Blue Mage 1000 Needles 4-tonze Weight Abyssal Transfixion Acorn Bomb Aetherial Mimicry Aetherial Spark Alpine Draft Angel Whisper Angel's Snack Aqua Breath Avail Bad Breath Basic Instinct Black Knight's Tour Blaze Blood Drain Bomb Toss Bristle Cactguard Chelonian Gate Chirp Choco Meteor Cold Fog Condensed Libra Devour Diamondback Doom Dragon Force Drill Cannons Electrogenesis Eerie Soundwave Exuviation Faze Feculent Flood Final Sting Fire Angon Flame Thrower Flying Frenzy Frog Legs Glower Gobskin High Voltage Hydro Pull Ice Spikes Ink Jet Kaltstrahl Launcher Level 5 Death Level 5 Petrify Loom Magic Hammer Malediction of Water Matra Magic Mighty Guard Mind Blast Missile Moon Flute Mustard Bomb Northerlies Off-guard Peculiar Light Peripheral Synthesis Perpetual Ray Plaincracker Pom Cure Protean Wave Reflux Revenge Blast Saintly Beam Self-destruct Sharpened Knife Snort Song of Torment Sonic Boom Sticky Tongue Stotram Tail Screw Tatami-gaeshi The Dragon's Voice The Look The Ram's Voice The Rose of Destruction Tingle Toad Oil Transfusion Triple Trident Ultravibration Water Cannon Whistle White Knight's Tour White Wind

Use

Surecast prevents spells from being interrupted when the caster takes damage. Without Surecast, any direct damage taken has a chance to interrupt the spell, with the interrupt chance increasing the higher the damage. Surecast can be used any time the user anticipates taking a large amount of damage to maximize their uptime. Surecast only protects against random damage-based interruption—it will not prevent interruption from actions designed to interrupt, interruption caused by statuses like Stun or Paralysis, or interruption from movement.

Surecast also protects the user from knockback and draw-in effects. Aside from simply protecting the user from potential damage or death caused by these effects, Surecast can provide a significant uptime increase, as the user will not need to worry repositioning, and in some encounters the animation lock caused by these effects can last several seconds. Note that not all such effects can be blocked by Surecast.

Surecast is an instant cast off-global cooldown (oGCD) ability. This allows players to weave it between global cooldowns (GCD) after using instant cast weaponskills or spells.

Patch history

Version	Changes
A Realm Reborn	Added as a Thaumaturge and Black Mage class action learned at level 8. Had a 10s duration and 30s recast. Only affected the next spell cast. Did not provide protection from knockback or draw-in effects. Level 16 Thaumaturge trait Enhanced Surecast added a 15% to nullify the recast time. Was available as an additional action to Arcanists, Archers, Conjurers, Gladiators, Lancers, Marauders, Pugilists, Scholars, Summoners, and White Mages.
Patch 2.4	Added as an additional action to Rogues.
Heavensward	Added as an additional action to Astrologians.
Stormblood	No longer available as an additional action. Now learned as a role action by all healer and magic ranged DPS disciplines. Acquired level increased to 44. Enhanced Surecast trait removed. Now nullifies knockback and draw-in effects. No longer available in PvP.
Patch 4.1	Now affects all spells for its duration. Now only nullifies most knockback and draw-in effects. Duration reduced to 5s.
Shadowbringers	Duration increased to 6s. Recast increased to 120s.

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