BLM: Endgame guide and rotations

[Pacifyer]

Just some observations, corrections on some things you've said

1. Single Target:
You're missing out on an additional Fire1 and potentially another Firestarter Fire III - Huge dps decrease over the course of a 5-10 minute fight.

If your MP is above 700, cast another Fire 1, then swift cast flare to use the remaining MP. If convert is up, use it and then cast another Fire 1 followed by Blizard III -> ThunderII or Scathe.
You need minimum 250sh MP to cast flare. That's great DMG potential and MP efficiency when combined with swiftcast.

you can either start with a swiftcast ThunderIII if its a boss with a large enough HP pool to justify using your swiftcast, or incorporate Swiftcast-> Flare

Swiftcast + Flare is great for ST only if you can Convert + Blizzard III out of it. If you are saving convert or it is on CD using Flare is way too bad as getting up from 0 mana with transpose will be too painful as both Fire III and Blizzard III are slow cast at that point so you will be losing DPS.

Also Thunder III has no sense cause its DoT will cover like 1.5 cycles forcing you to use scathe on next mana regen and miss out half of cylce in Thunder DoT. I have said about swiftcasting Fire III on pull - that at least has some sense. Use Thunder III only on Thundercloud procs.

2. AOE
You can transpose and then spam BlizardII as you climb the MP refresh.

Another side note, BlizardIII is not poor DMG by any means. Its inferior to FireIII and Fire1 spam in Astral Fire mode, but it isn't weak by any means. My BlizardIII's can crit for more than 1k.

Yet again spamming Blizzard II is a major DPS loss. Just try rotation from my post.
And Yes, Blizzard III has poor damage if under Astral Fire and there is no sense in casting it in any othre situation cause its cast time is very long