My brother-in-law and I were just talking about this yesterday. It seems that the new 24 man rarely ever drops casting gear. It is almost always fending, slaying, scouting, or maiming gear.

I have three characters that are summoner that do The Tower at Paradigm's Breach, and of all the times that I do that raids, very seldomly does casting gear ever drop.

My brother-in-law says that he has to repeat the raid every day for a week to get something for his red mage. He has all jobs to 80 including crafters and gatherers and is a very skilled player. The only job that is somewhat under geared is his red mage because he was waiting to gear that job with 24 man gear.

Me, per character, I find that I have to repeat the raid upwards of five times in a row before a single casting gear drops. And when it eventually drops, only one piece of casting gear drops the entire raid and it is usually either the gloves which I already have, or I get out rolled on the one piece of casting gear that did drop. As a result, I end up repeating it another five times, repeat repeat, repeat to infinity and beyond until I eventually give up and go without for the week.

I do not need it as much as my brother-in-law needs it. I just want to gear my retainers with it as I am going for augmented Cryptlurker for myself. However, it has been a struggle for my brother-in-law who actually needs the casting gear.