Also as a lala with an extra 13 piety + hq max ether you can do a 7 x fire in opener
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True, but as SS increases, the time shaved off by swiftcasting Fire III decreases. At the same time, the hardcast ogcd time stays the same. At base SS, Fire IV hardcast and (hard)swift + Fire IV are the same potency, but as you get more spellspeed, the hardswift Fire IV becomes less potent. There is a gain from hardcasting swiftcast so you can weave another ogcd, but the same gain could be gotten by weaving swiftcast at another point in your rotation, or better yet saving it for planned movement. The gain in the given example is made even less by Ley Lines and other party speed buffs. I'd go so far as to say that with any Arrow card except expanded, that hardcasting swiftcast is even a loss (I'll math it out later). In any case, it's better to use swiftcast while NOT under the effect of Ley Lines, and even better to use it to get an extra Fire IV in lieu of a Scathe during long periods of movement if you don't have a proc.
the opener ive been using for a8s is f3 start - > 4x fire4 (fs) 2x fire4 because it lines up seed + megabeam with firestarter very nicely and allows you to save your swift for execution add.
also i have a question about cd alignment for blm. is it worth it to hold 3rd leylines for raging if your second leylines is late due to forced downtime (a7 jail, a6 in between bosses, boost in a5, etc), or should I just use rs and convert as soon as raging and my 60 second cooldowns are back up?