General Rule of thumbs, mages do not melee in exp party (except for BLU of course...) for various obvious reasons such as mp, mp, mp, feeding mob with tp, mp, mp, mp, no chain, and did i mention MP?
And to Ruffy, not everyone is excel at their job and probably smaller percentage of the population that can play mage jobs. Yes, i hate mages that meree in exp party ONLY IF their actions directly affects the party. If the mages meree in pt with little effects on exp/per hour... heck i don't care.
Plus as RDM, we do not really get much resting time either when in merit party, if the other party members can take care of themselves as in not to be severe mp sponge to RDM. Yeahhh , sure he can meree all he wants.
But, how many good RDM with the right party set up with the right party members with the right camp and the right mobs that can do that Ruffy? >_>
(I think you get my point <_<) Anyway, in general, mages apart from BLU do not melee in exp party unless their action has little or no effect on the party. Period.
Edit: Come to think about it, the only time when the mages' actions have little impact to the party is when... that mages either sucks or really sucks so bad that whatever they are doing in party not gonna matter much <_<... *scratches head*