The Black Mage Rotations

[EasymodeX]

Fixing the back-to-back Flares under UI3 has a reasonable chance of resulting in some sort of impact to double-dip mechanics, although any actual impact is still speculation.

[Synovius]

Agreed. Although they've confirmed they are only fixing the back to back Flares, I am a little scared it may "fix" the overall ability to double-dip as you mentioned. If that were to occur then the AoE rotation I've posted would probably need to be scrapped and a Fire II AoE rotation be adopted.

[O-Deka-K]

Agreed. Although they've confirmed they are only fixing the back to back Flares, I am a little scared it may "fix" the overall ability to double-dip as you mentioned. If that were to occur then the AoE rotation I've posted would probably need to be scrapped and a Fire II AoE rotation be adopted.

I tried it for a little bit this morning. As far as I can tell, double-dip is gone. What's weird is that you still need a slight delay when changing from Blizzard/Freeze to Fire. Just try spamming B3 > F3 > B3 > F3 to see. I forgot to actually try the double-Flare.

Also, the rumors about the mana tick syncing to your UI buff seem to be false. It's every 3 seconds as usual.

[Waliel]

Fixing the back-to-back Flares under UI3 has a reasonable chance of resulting in some sort of impact to double-dip mechanics, although any actual impact is still speculation.

I hope it's only a second or two cooldown added on Flare.

[Allyrion]

Fixing the back-to-back Flares under UI3 has a reasonable chance of resulting in some sort of impact to double-dip mechanics, although any actual impact is still speculation.

But the double dip mechanic is simply based on effects happening 'on impact' rather than right after casting.
The way I see it, it's a small compensation for missing out on all potential Firestarter procs which is caused by the same design.

One will affect the other and I'd certainly give up double dipping to Fire III on every proc. Though I doubt they're going to buff BLMs anymore, especially since they just said that lower dps will be 'brought up to BLM damage' recently.