Quote Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh View Post
Well in that case, you might as well drink those stat potions because they do exactly the same thing that you are proposing. A BLM could just drink an X Potion of Intelligence and get a boost in his magic damage for a bit.
That wouldn't save him if he was weakened, the transformation would remove the weakened status, also raise HP and other stats, so it would be like drinking all the X potions at one time.