The Black Mage Rotations

[SeraviEdalborez]

@OP, Why would you ever Flare with full MP?

[Synovius]

@OP, Why would you ever Flare with full MP?

Flare is our hardest hitting ability, by a large margin. For this reason, it is a mathematical fact that the more Flares we can fit into our rotation, the more damage we'll fit into a given period of time - so long as we're not doing something hokey that results in a non-fluid, clunky rotation or a rotation that is very situational based on RNG. The rotation that I've listed out for AoE casts Flare, with three stacks of Astral Fire, as often as is possible with the lone exception of using Convert for a double Astral Fire III Flare. Mana is a bit irrelevant when it comes to a rotation. Remember: a DPS rotation's goal is to maximize DPS. DPS doesn't care about what you're mana pool looks like.

On top of all that, I've extensively parsed various AoE rotations and the rotation I've detailed out came out on top by a sizable margin.