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[ViviAnimus]

I was parsing for 10 minutes plus on each attempt. However, I must conclude that RNG such a critical hit, amount of fire procs at the end, thunder procs etc ... have a say in this. Although everytime I parsed using the second method I was around 320 DPS instead of 340. It was pretty consistent. I have thought about Yandere his or her remark as well. But I am really fast. You just press Fire III button very shortly and immediately move on to Blizzard III. I guess there is still a bit of time that is lost, but I would argue that in an 11 minute battle you perhaps accumalate how many Fire Procs at the end? Lets just say 20 hypocthetically. That's 20x250 more damage = 5000 over the second method.
How many more spells do you think you would be able to cast extra by using the second method? Enough to get that kind of damage over 11 minutes?
I must also continue to stress that you basically only lose just a fraction of time using my method when you do it right.

[Pyroclastic]

Thunder II - Fire III - Fire I until 300 MP - Swiftcast Flare - Convert - Fire I - Fire III (proc)
What I mean in my rotation with the proc is that during my last Fire III before using Blizzard III, I press Fire III button in case a Fire III proc appears. I do this very swiftly. If there is no proc, I use Blizzard III immediately since there is almost no loss in time.

This. 100% true. I have been testing this for months now and my conclussion is that you simply HAVE to use all fireprocs during astral III, or it's simply wasted..
What I am still wondering about though, and I hope you have tested this single target rotation, Vivianimus.. Do you think that using swiftcast flare every time swiftcast is up, followed by instant transpose -> thunder II -> Fire III -> fire, is higher dps in the long run than only using swiftcast flare when convert is up?

For testing purposes I have tried to test both rotations by NEVER using convert, NEVER using ANY procs and parsing for 6 minutes (it's hard to keep this non-proc rotation up so that's why only 6 min ) and more often than not the "300mp-swiftcast flare-transpose-T2-F3"- rotation would be about 10% more dps than the normal "300mp-B3-T2-F3"-rotation.
But I'm still not 100% convinced, because sometimes the first rotation (swiftcast flare on CD) would be just the same dps as the normal rotation.. So that makes me think that it really depends on how fast you get your manatick after transpose..