BLM: Endgame guide and rotations

[Royze]

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.

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

For AOE You said "
- Fire III
- Fire II
- Flare
- Transpose
... rince and repeat"

You will get off 1-2 x BlizardII's right after transpose before your back up to full MP to start the switch into FireIII>Astral Fire depending on when the transpose is registered.
Or you could just sit there and do nothing while MP refreshes, which as I understand is what you are saying?

On ST, even if you don't have swift cast or convert up, why stop @ 1000 MP? that is still 2x Fire 1's + a Blizard III.

Even though I did actually say Convert/swiftcast/flare - so I guess you're agreeing with me there but want to sound like you knew that but didn't include it in the OP?

Like I said, I don't think your rotations actually represent efficient MP usage.

EDIT: Quelling strikes is useful for when you have novice tanks. But if the tank has any clue what he's doing, you won't need this.