Quote Originally Posted by skaterger View Post
However I feel that blm doesn't allow me to do that as for the most part i am just watching for fs and tc procs while fire 1 spamming and refreshing thunder 2 when it falls off.
First off, if all you are doing is spamming Astral Fire spells with the oddball Thunder Spell while waiting for Firestarter and Thundercloud to proc.... I find it absolutely amazing you don't run out of MP so fast and regularly that you are constantly unable to optimize your DPS. Even making liberal use of Convert won't help you if that is all you are doing to attempt to optimize your DPS.

Rather you should be alternating between casting Astral Fire spells and Umbral Ice spells so that you never run short on MP inbetween uses of Convert. That also will enable you to be constantly applying pressure and to have next to no downtime on your DPS.