There is not a single fight in Final Coil (discounting purposeless bloating) in which you'll find a similarly skilled BLM fighting to match the SMN. Not saying SMNs can't be great by the way, I'm just saying that Black Mages currently have a greater DPS ceiling than SMNers. Besides, find me some videos of SMNs doing 550+ on T10 and 11 pre-nerf.

lol to say that SMN AoE is comparable with BLM AoE is sacrilegious. Why would you discount Flare? That makes absolutely 0 sense. Like Akiza said, Flare isn't on a cooldown and is an integral part of our AoE and is what makes us AoE kings lol

Fire 3 > Raging > Fire 2 > Fire 2 > Fire 2 > flare > convert > flare > swiftcast > mega-ether > flare
3 flares in 15-20 seconds?
Tranpose > Fire 3 > Fire 2 > fire 2 > Flare
Another flare every what, 15-20 seconds?