Should Casters Prioritize Auto Attacks?

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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.

You don't lose any damage because you use ruin 2 or bio to move in as a summoner, or procs as a BLM.

For extreme primals, people tend to stack behind titan and ifrit anyway so you'll get your auto attacks there easily. On garuda there's no reason not to simply position yourself right behind her on the non add phases to get your auto attacks.

On caduceus you can stand on his flank at no cost.

ADS repelling cannon and other mechanics will force you to move in and out too much so you'll probably lose dps for trying to melee, plus if you're doing rot then you shouldn't be near melee anyway. If doing enrage then... yeah lol.

Turn 4 can stand behind dreadnaughts np. Anything else not worth running around.

Twintania you get to sit on her for a good part of the early fight so you get your free attacks in. Once twister starts though you have no business being melee.