Quote Originally Posted by KaivaC View Post
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Right, it's not so much your current melds you need to worry about rather than the caster gear you currently have that's boosting your spell speed. You just need to swap out for some different pieces and save the other things for your other casters. For example, a lot of your left-side gear could probably stand to be swapped with different pieces. Since you're working on Eureka, as long as you're sticking with the NM train and leveling steadily it shouldn't take long to upgrade your relic body gear. It'll be a slight decrease in INT, but the gain in other important secondary stats and the five materia slots should more than make up for it. I'd also recommend saving your mendacity tomes towards the 360 hand, legs, and feet gear, with a priority on the legs since the current leg piece you have adds a ton of spell speed. If you can snag a 370 belt from O5S, then that could help too, but I don't think it's as big a priority. Your right-side gear is probably fine for the most part, so I don't think you need to change much there for the time being. It may take a few weeks altogether to save the tomes for the pieces I recommended, unless you already have some in reserve, but I think you'll find it worth it. Ariyala's toolkit site is also nice for planning out your gear progression and what stats you can expect to get out of them.

That said, I still think you're being too hard on yourself for those logs. You're still just starting out in the job, and like I said before, almost no one starts out being instantly good. I'd still like to encourage that you take some time now and then to practice your rotations, and brush up on some online guides for tips and tricks you might not have considered. I hope I'm not seeming like a pest, but I really do believe you can improve. Perhaps you can also get some practice in by doing some easier content that isn't liable to be parsed by anyone, like normal Byakko. That way you can get a feel for things with far less pressure, and you can continue to tank in savage until you feel comfortable to try again as SMN. Just be patient with yourself, and you'll get there in time.