Quote Originally Posted by T0rin View Post
Free damage is free damage. If it's safe, why wouldn't you? Yeah, hitting something with your book 3-4 times a minute will give you an extra ~200+ damage, so why not?

I'm not saying they are 'top priority', obviously your typical spells are more important, but you're essentially getting free damage for the simple action of positioning yourself closer. In most fights, with sprint, you're going to take less than 2 seconds at absolute most, positioning in melee range, much less depending on the fight.

And some classes (SMN) have higher base strength than other classes, so how worthwhile it is depends on your class. But, in the end, it is free damage for the minor issues of running into melee range once.
Depends how much damage you can do in the 2 seconds it takes to reach your opponent. If you lose 1000 damage from 1 GCD and only do an extra 200 damage from auto-attacks, you'll lose DPS. Not to mention you may have to move more at melee range, which is a DPS loss for someone like a BLM or anyone using cast-time spells.

I wouldn't think too much of it. The only time you should care about auto attack is if you're in Titan HM and feel like building LB on his first phase. The damage loss from moving will most likely never be made up by auto attack damage, unless you lose no damage from moving, in which case do it if you really want.

At the end of the day, however, 200 damage in a 1 minute time frame is negligible at best. You won't notice the damage, nor will it help any situation. The only time it would make a difference is if every single person in the group did the same thing, account for maybe 800 extra damage per minute but even then, still negligible.