Casters in FL?

[tinythinker]

I'd say casters (especially RDM) and non-NIN melee are harder to play well than tanks, ranged physical, and healers, so if you find your general game sense in FL is lacking, it can be worth it to play something more forgiving until you get more games under your belt. I've noticed a lot of the people who consistently play mages and melee well are people who have played a lot of FL, where as I feel if our best players are, say, a tank or healer, their talents are not being utilized as well.

I've only played 517 FL matches (compared to the thousands some have played), but I think I can generally sense risk, which is why I stay so far back and am quick to flee as a caster. Yet it is a little different on casters. I just had a match where I got to be at mid for several minutes and was doing well, but bridges and other nodes often go quickly one way or another and then there are the loose open field skirmishes. Will keep practicing and looking for openings. Have more levels to do on BLM and then onto RDM. Thank you for your time and thoughtfulness. Your insights and those of my teammates have been very helpful in understanding how gameplay changes using magic ranged dps. Always appreciate it.

On tanks - they can kill me really easy either in a group battle or 1 v 1, and, as mentioned before, I don't see tanks and melee distract or harass people too often. Some do sure, but a lot of times it's more like when 5 year olds are playing sports and the coach tells them to play their positions but then they all run to the ball anyway So I just make do with what I get in terms of team composition, experience, priorities, etc. Patience is an issue for me because on other job roles it feels like I always have an opening ready to go, so I guess it makes casters feel slow by comparison. Will take time to acclimate.

Here are all my BLM matches, running from April 24th through the 26th:

April 24th
1-0-13
0-0-12
1-2-11
2-1-5
0-3-7
2-0-16 (really good group)
[forgot to check stats but something like 0-3-9]
1-5-11
1-4-10
0-1-12
0-3-13


April 25th
2-2-17 538712 (13th in total damage) <-- loss
1-2-15 229533 (19th) <-- loss
2-3-29 51656 (near or at bottom) <-- loss
0-2-2 34110 (not sure, really bad group) <-- loss
1-2-17 235010 (21st) <-- loss
2-0-8 95474 (35th) <-- loss
1-3-28 169674 (23rd) <-- loss
1-1-15 150987 (43rd) <-- loss
3-1-15 151880 (42nd) <-- win
1-1-12 64967 (36th) <-- loss
break
3-0-18 444610 (9th) <-- loss
2-2-4 92920 (51st) <-- loss
1-1-13 148967 (35th) <-- loss
2-2-11 135545 (39th) <-- win

April 26th
0-0-5 17916 (67th), but we dominated for a super quick win
5-0-34 368005 (17th) <-- win and got Battlehigh V (good group; before died too much to go beyond I or maybe II)
1-2-17 67695 [interrupted by glitch/crash] <-- win but missed part of match
2-3-21 122808 (34th) <-- win
3-1-24 128843 (38th) <-- win
0-1-16 103984 (43rd) <-- win
2-0-33 206981 (26th) <-- win
1-2-13 80169 (46th) <-- win
1-1-16 216685 (29th) <-- loss