The Black Mage Rotations

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I'm very hard pressed to believe that fitting Flare into the rotation is a DPS gain at all considering it takes you to 0 mana meaning you have to wait on Transpose to give you a tick before you can start your rotation again.

I assessed this the other day with a guy in my FC; it's pretty straightforward: a generic AF3 Flare at 260*1.8 takes 4.0s to execute, with an additional time penalty of 3.0s/2 average wait for a tick of mana after the Transpose.

Net result is 260*1.8/(4.0+1.5) = 85pps, which is lower than a BLM's normal single target rotation, which floats in the ~105-110 area according to the sim from the other thread. Hence it is a DPS loss unless you do something more interesting (like swiftcast).

Sidenote: this does, though, mean that it's a DPS increase on 2 targets, because 170pps > 105~110, unless you're T--. Nvm.