lol i like how ppl changes the value when they need to argue on something :
- 1 wind is 15% not 10% of haste (16.5 % if the optic fiber affect it)
- mediocre att ? you said +20 att... i wonder from where you got this value. You should usually have at last 2 att attachments, let say tension spring 1 and 2, even w/o fire maneuver you have more that +20 att (should be around 50 actually, w/o fire maneuver), with 1 fire up and this 2 attachements, you kinda have the same att boost that a brd can give you with his best minuet (assuming 5/5 merit on minuet and assuming a +3 instrument), and if the optic fiber affect it, the boost is a bit better if you compare it to Valor minuet V
- mediocre acc ? what are you doing with accuracy attachments in abyssea ? even for the rng automaton you dont need them. You should always have a thunder maneuver up, that mean critical hit rate +5%, DA +10% (5.5 and 11% if the optic fiber affect them)
Outside abyssea the accuracy boost (assuming you need accuracy) is really big, look the bonus of the Target Marker alone...


And stop to stay that we lost 10% of our DPS, it's wrong. Most of time we do the maneuvers between 2 fight, during the time we run to a mob, etc.

The problem in this topic is that you underestimate the gain FULL TIME for your automaton, and you overestimate the lost on this 0-6 sec per minute.