When do the training wheels come off?

[Lmcgyver]

Lol , my bad, I kind of left that out but yeah I would use blizzard 3 and fire 3 to go back and forth.
Didn’t feel the need to add that since I felt it was standard knowledge for BLM lol. Didn’t mean to confuse you.

No problem; I thought that might be the case, but when it comes to rotations you can never be sure - it's always better to list it out fully. I can at least confirm now your issue was the Hearts though, as you would have indeed used them through casting 3x Fire II before Flare.
By the way, if you are using Blizzard III for changing to Umbral Ice in your AoE rotation, it's worth noting that Freeze now does the same job as Blizzard III, but better when it hits 3+ targets.