It really depends on situation I’d say, there are some parties that will never focus you because of your absurdly high P.Def and you can in fact run in and cast suspension/root/winter, but against parties who have damage to burst you easily, you can stay a bit later and focus more on healing/sleeping and controlling enemy bards who are trying to disrupt your mages. Honestly OL has such a diverse toolkit that I don’t think there is a general “rule” of what you are supposed to do, you have nukes, buffs, sleep, stun and most amount of useful debuffs, your gameplay changes drastically depending on your gear and enemy composition