Quote Originally Posted by Aikaal View Post
Fire I is 306 Potency. It also has 40% chance to give you an instant cast free Fire III that is 468 potency. So if you had more Fire I in your rotation, you do a lot more damage. In your ice stance, Blizzard I is 170 Potency and Thunder I is 240 Potency. If BLMs were to have the same mana pool than SMN which is 3k, I'd barely have mana for cast 4 Fire I in my rotation. I'd be useless.

You could say I prefer to spend as much time in my Astral Fire stance and the least time in my Umbral Ice stance but I,d want to have full mana in my Astral Fire.
I may not like blm playstyle much, but I just have a feeling that kind of rotation is not ideal. Relying on a proc with 40% chance just save some mp bothers me for some reason. Wouldn't just casting fire 3 till you have to switch to blizz 3 and thunders net a more constant dps with a higher average over hoping you get a firestarter? Idk, I never liked blm and only leveled it for swiftcast so don't take me for an authority on it.