Quote Originally Posted by Rongway View Post
Everyone should be close enough regardless of role that this isn't a burden. Nobody should ever be out in left field even if they can hit everything from there; that's just a basic lesson every ranged DD in this game needs to learn. Besides, you have no cast times and no channeled moves aside from Improvisation, which you only use in situations that moot this point; and you even have a teleport skill with three charges for quick position changes.
This is a good general rule of thumb, but not true 100% of the time for all ranged jobs. There are fights where it's better for BLM to be away (though still within aoe healing range, ideally) so that they won't have to move as much, and them being away from the group won't cause any issue for the group. There's also some mechanics where particularly people will want to be away from the group most, if not all, of the time (Ifrit Ex back in 2.x, as a rather old example X3).