Should Casters Prioritize Auto Attacks?

[Judge_Xero]

Someone should Parse the mage AA damage. Maybe if it's like 2k a minute it might be worh it.

[Eohi]

Someone should Parse the mage AA damage. Maybe if it's like 2k a minute it might be worh it.

Actually came here to ask what people here thought about mage AA as the Gamefaqs topic got pretty heated.

The ruin/2 and psycicks are there to illustrate how AA damage changes with cast times. DPS is from a minutes worth of hits.

SMN:
Titan Book: 49.28 AA Damage/3.36 delay
452 INT/ 182 STR/ 295 det
AA hits for 70~, 100 on Crit
Ruin hits for 170~, 270~ on Crit
AA only: 24 dps(18~ hits)
Ruin only: 80 dps (23~ hits)
Ruin+AA: 84 dps(23~ ruin, 6~ AA)(2.44 cast)
Psycick spam + AA: 11 dps (8~ AA)(1.95 cast)
Ruin 2+AA: 104(!) dps (23~ ruin, 18~ AA)(instant)

Overall if you spam a minute full of ruin 2 your auto attacks can add up to 1.4k worth of damage. While you'll never get that full amount due to reapplication of dots I'm sure you've all had those times where 1k in damage more would have meant victory.

[StouterTaru]

Someone should Parse the mage AA damage. Maybe if it's like 2k a minute it might be worh it.

I highly doubt it's anywhere near that for a blm; I once took down a level <5 mob as 50 blm with just melee, it took about 4 swings.