Quote Originally Posted by Kevee View Post
The only reason to use an ACC set/Spur is if you need the utility(Such as Conflags/Dreadknights), or you think you, or your pet will die. On a fight like Turn 2, it would be better to use ACC gear to summon your pet, switch to crit/DPS gear, and never touch spur. Turn 5, use ACC set so you can use Spur.
I'm still of the opinion that the difference in DPS is so marginal it's not worth all the extra trouble of trying to salvage the max crit "BiS" set. We would have to carry around a summoning set and a DPS set, AND now we've found out we'd have to (admittedly marginally) alter our playstyle in order to reap the benefits of having two sets. All for a 1.5% increase in DPS. And if something unexpected happens and things don't go perfectly ("the shit hits the fan"), and you or the pet dies, you lose extra DPS just when you need it most. If everything goes perfectly well, did that extra 1.5% actually make any difference at all? It seems to me that it's more prudent to make sure you have as much DPS as possible in a worst case scenario. Best case scenario doesn't matter because you'd win either way.

If this were FFXI I'd advocate set swapping, as you could do that at any time in that game. I'd swap to one set to cast an avatar, swap to another just before using a blood pact, swap to another while the blood pact was charging (increased avatar damage gear, etc), swap to different gear with the avatar put away, swap to resting gear for MP regen (every mage had this set). The sort of macros I made and how intricate my gear-swapping was bordered on the absurd. So it's not that I don't advocate this kind of silliness, it's that I don't think it serves us very much in this game. I'd rather prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

Quote Originally Posted by LionKing View Post
Bane does not wake up Mobs already slept? Keeve, you did not misread his post, did you?
The examples in his post are all correct. I used bane extensively while leveling in dungeons (the timer period where BLMs still obsessively sleep everything), and no mob was ever woken by Bane. I thought this was odd at first, so I did it over and over to make sure. Of course, sometimes parties freaked out because they thought Bane would wake the mobs, but I just ignored them.