Quote Originally Posted by Vortex View Post
Excuse me, do you mind explaing what is "very wrong" with that exactly? the head is the only "off" peice of that entire set and since skills cap at some point, what exactly is wrong with casting anything in 4/5 or 5/5 AF3+2 set, Nothing is better then hands, nothing is better then legs nothing is better then feet. nothing is better then body, the only excption to hands is the casting time hands before song goes off, only thing i can think of for head is demon's helm, marduk tiara, but that is why i'm asking because as i said, even if you have singing and wind merits, what else would you possibly use if you're already at the skill cap?

Tho i am not sure what CHR and singing caps at for buffs/debuffs ( i assume 600 combined skill)
Finishing a song in 5/5 AF3+2 (or 4/5 AF3+2 with Marduk's Tiara for Scherzo) is definitely optimal. Starting to Cast Songs (Precast) in 5/5 AF3+2 or w/e isn't optimal at all. Unless you're stacking Fast Cast/Song Casting -% Atmas in Abyssea, you're gonna be casting slow as hell (Unless Minstrel's is in effect, but even then...) And in Abyssea, you should really aim to not have to depend on those kinds of Atmas since you'd be much more useful with Atmas that gear towards Refresh/Regain to help proc Red/Blue or help support with heals/etc.

Outside of Abyssea... <.< There's no contest that Brd's that care about their job should be aiming to use a Precast set with their buffing songs.

Precast for debuffs isn't really necessary (Perhaps Lullaby though...), and as far I know, Skill/Chr never really "cap" on debuffs. Debuffs have a 95% Cap rate on landing though iirc, so until you hit a 95% debuff rate on whatever, adding more Skill and CHR WILL help with landing debuffs. Nowadays, there shouldn't be too much issue with landing debuffs on most NMs (I hardly use my ToM Ele Acc staves anymore x.x).