Should Casters Prioritize Auto Attacks?

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It is more of a benefit on longer fights (like Twintania) where you stay in melee range for multiple minutes at a time, and you more or less are in melee range a lot of the time regardless. Other examples are Ex Titan and Ex Ifrit.

Obviously you need to keep it in perspective, but if you are going to be in/near melee range anyways, there is no reason not to.

Morale of the story: Its situational in the extreme and shouldn't be given as general advise.

A fight like Twin makes sense. But basically any other fight that doesn't require melee range its probably a waste unless you can stand there hitting it long enough to make up for 1-2 lost GCD's.