As an additional note, leveling from 1->99, meleeing mages isn't necessarily a bad thing. There's some acc gear, food isn't terribly expensive, and building up your staff (BLM) or club (WHM) skill does grant you some WS you can benefit from for decent damage, especially since several of the Trusts will skillchain with you. Karaha-Baraha and Ayame are particularly good at this, and the latter will even WS to open a SC for you once you hit 1000 TP, as long as it's the last WS you used; basically, you "prime" her with a WS, and she'll continuously open up SCs for you to close + Magic Burst on for good damage. And with the changes to tanking, tank trusts usually don't lose hate even to an MB as long as they have Flash/Provoke etc. So yeah! Melee mage is not a bad leveling style now.