I find these useful Final Fantasy XIV Mage FAQ from the official forum. Here i will introduce that. Hope that is helpful for the players.
What is supposed to be the role of the Mage class?
The Mage class is primarily a ranged damage-oriented support class that has three separate schools of magic available to them: Arcane, Fire, and Frost. The three different forms of magic schools available to the Mage make it a very flexible class to deal damage to almost any type of creature in the game. The Mage also has the strongest multiple target area of effect (AoE) damaging spells/abilities in the game. Other support functions that a Mage can provide include single target control [Polymorph], and short-term crowd control [Frost Nova/root effects]. The Mage class is also the only class that has the ability to conjure food and drink This saves a great deal of ffxiv gil for the Mage and his/her friends. The Mage is very highly sought after class for groups, raids, and instance dungeon crawls.
Although the Mage is a very strong group-role class, it makes a very effective character in soloing many same-level quests and creatures on its own. The general rule is:
-Any mob whose level appears as green or yellow is safe. You shouldn’t be killing grey mobs to level as they offer no experience. Ideally you should focus on ffxiv gil and yellow mobs/quests
- Any mob whose level is orange is killable, but will probably cost you a bit more mana and life than a yellow or green mob
- Any mob whose level is red will probably not be killable by you. It is not a good idea to attack red mobs while soloing.
What character stats are most important to my Mage?
How important a stat is to your Mage truly depends on how you wish to play your Mage. It is the general understanding of the Mage community that Intellect and Stamina are the two top priority stats a Mage should focus on while leveling to 60, in outland gear with int, stam and +dmg on it becomes readily available.
Intellect impacts your ffxiv gil critical strike chance with spells and increases your available mana pool, intellect should be the stat you focus on most while leveling to 60, after 60 the gear available in outlands almost immediately has int, stam and +dmg on it, so obviously it would be a good idea to take this gear.
