[Aksannyi]

I'm a Red Mage by trade but I figured more BLMs would know about this so I'm posting it here.

Lately when I've been trying to solo some mobs - of any level, really, but it's been EM's and T's the past week or so - I've been casting Sleep II on them and attempting to nuke them to death in their sleep.

From what I've always known (unless something has changed) you are able to sleep a mob and cast spells on it, except for DoTs, of course, and it should stay asleep for a reasonable amount of time.

Lately, however, I've seen this is not the case. Even in XP when we get a link and I have a bit of extra MP hanging around, I used to like tossing a small nuke at the sleeping mob so that it's not so difficult to kill when we take it on. Now, they always wake up, regardless of the tier of the nuke.

This is the same when I'm soloing EM Lesser Colibri - or trying to - the big problem is I cast Sleep II, cast a nuke, and it wakes up. So I cast Sleep, then Drain it to get back the HP I lost from being hit, and it wakes up again. At this point I'm running for my life back to town.

So my question is this: Is it still possible to sleep + nuke + nuke (etc) a mob and it won't wake up after every single spell? Nuking that way will surely get me killed as I definitely do not have the MP to keep up multiple casts of Sleep.

Any insight you guys can give me on this will help. Oh, I should also add that my Enfeebling Magic is capped, though Dark is not. I'm not sure which Sleep falls under.