The Black Mage Rotations

[O-Deka-K]

You don't want full mana. You want only 2 mana tiks that means be able to cast fire 2 fire 2 flare. You must have a SS so high that fire 3 cast time is less then 3s before having issues with this rotation and the "issue" is wait 0.1 sec if your fire3 cast time is of 2.9

I agree that Spell Speed may be a factor. However, according to PuroStrider's spreadsheet, you'd need 686 spell speed in order to reduce the cast time of Fire3 to 3 seconds. I only have 440.

In 2.0, UI1, UI2, UI3 all worked the same: UI was switched to AF3 when Fire3/Flare hit.

In 2.1, UI3 was changed so that UI3 was removed shortly before Fire3/Flare hit and AF3 was applied after, leaving a small window where you have no buff. However, it was discovered that they didn't change UI1 and UI2, so the double-Flare was modified to work under UI1.

In 2.3 now, they specifically said that they changed UI1 and UI2, so I think that they just applied the same change as they did with UI3. I haven't been watching my buffs carefully enough to confirm this though. I'm going to do some testing this weekend.

[Adamantium]

In 2.3 now, they specifically said that they changed UI1 and UI2, so I think that they just applied the same change as they did with UI3. I haven't been watching my buffs carefully enough to confirm this though. I'm going to do some testing this weekend.

You're right in your assumption. I tested it as soon as patch day hit because I figured that's the change they would have applied.