Why do you save your LB?

[Sunarie]

For certain fights our FC usually saves LB for later..the reason is in case stuff hits the fan and we end up needing the healer 3rd rank one, cause you aren't likely to get back up to a 3rd full bar. We have recovered from an icky Titan run (all dead save for one healer, a tank, a bard, and a black mage post heart phase) with a bard using the healer limit break to get everyone up. Granted the bard also got landslide off... but a sacrificial bard isn't so bad.

Usually stuff doesn't hit the fan and it's just using the limit break later, but it's nice to have the huge rez option in case it's needed.

Everyone loves melees to LB the boss. Unless we're talking about something like the mistral shriek in garuda story mode ( the one after the vortex comes and pillars are knocked ) and it is expected that a tank LB could be needed, I think melee should just go for it. Parties that need support LBs are usually not going to make it....

It actually depends on the fight. Garuda EX we actually use the caster aoe one when some of the adds are up and on the MT (usually Supra-whatever and Garuda herself). If it's a single boss fight, no adds, we'll usually use melee. I agree with the person quoted though, as stated above. DPS LB is secondary to a healer one if crap hits the fan. Tank I pretty much never get to use.

[kukurumei]

Tank I pretty much never get to use.

Tank LB is useful in ex primals (and of course ultima). Since it's the only instant LB you have. Meaning you can time it to within a few seconds.

Garuda EX for instance if the spiny is dead, a lvl2 or even lvl1 Tank LB can prevent a wipe. Same for Titan, if you time it just right, you can do certain things.

Healer is probably the weakest LB of all, but attack LB is pretty worthless if you have dead people. The damage reduction of a dead members make is pretty worthless.

If you have more then 2 people dead, attack LB is nearly the same as not using at all, unless you have a specific purposes (meteor adds, or precast)

[Sunarie]

Tank LB is useful in ex primals (and of course ultima). Since it's the only instant LB you have. Meaning you can time it to within a few seconds.

Garuda EX for instance if the spiny is dead, a lvl2 or even lvl1 Tank LB can prevent a wipe. Same for Titan, if you time it just right, you can do certain things.

Healer is probably the weakest LB of all, but attack LB is pretty worthless if you have dead people. The damage reduction of a dead members make is pretty worthless.

If you have more then 2 people dead, attack LB is nearly the same as not using at all, unless you have a specific purposes (meteor adds, or precast)

I suppose. I've never viewed the tank dps as instant because it certainly locks me in place and all when I have used it until the animation ends, but the animation is shorter than the healer one (I don't have a dps limit, so I can't speak to those two).

Our group has always just found it more useful to use DPS limit breaks, even for the primals. The only exception is Ultima, or when there are LB bars left after a wipe in Twintania, I'll pop the tank LB and run in. I can't say we've used an attack LB with many people dead.. as that's usually when a healer LB is used (assuming we've gotten to the third bar). That's our group's strategy though, and clearly this thread has illustrated how different strategies can be.

Ultimately though, to the OP's question, I think the answer is mostly "in case all hell breaks loose".. as to why people wait to use the dps limit until towards the end of the fight.