BLM: Endgame guide and rotations

[SirGazuntai]

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?

Wrong. After you use Transpose you should gain a mana tick instantly the second time you use your rotation. You can repeatedly use Fire III > Fire II > Flare > Transpose with no pauses, no waiting for ticks and no DPS loss. There's no need to use any Ice move on AoE rotations as long as you use Fire III as soon as you get a mana tick as the length of time the rotation takes syncs up with mana ticks.

You aren't trying to reach max MP, you just need 1 tick to be able to complete the rotation. Waiting for more MP ticks is a DPS loss.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-BLM-rotations...

^ There's a thread I created just after 2.1.