Thanks for the long write up Fae. Been playing FFXI for 7.5 years with multiple jobs capped etc etc but I didn't reference that so obviously it's understandable to judge my post based on this account's listed level. My suggestion list is from my experiences in exploring every aspect of the job during every possible avenue I could explore it in and these are the recurring gripes I had. My summoning magic is capped, and yes it is a pain to keep it capped, but I still find myself losing efficiency more than I'd like in solo/low man situations due to me having hate and getting interrupts and due to the length of the spell cast time this can become fairly significant.

I actually disagree with you on BP timer being too long. I find myself being most efficient when using the BPs then swapping in a spirit for a spell then swapping back to an avatar for BP. I also don't find myself using the most mana expensive BPs all that often. I'm not sure you could realistically increase your damage that much by being able to spam BPs. If you did you would limit yourself to just BP BP BP rest repeat and then you might as well just be a blm or sch etc. The point is I don't find myself in a situation where I feel like I wish I could just spam BPs that often.