BLM and swiftcast

[TimeAndAWord]

I was just curious, but is there ever a reason to use swiftcast on a BLM other than for mobility? Seems pointless to swiftcast and damage spells but I maybe wrong.

Swiftcast should be included in your rotation in order to maximize your dps. One good way to utilize it efficiently is to use it when you have just enough mana to cast flare. The instant flare will trigger a cooldown, but it won't matter because immediately after casting flare, you'll want to use transpose to start getting your mana back asap.

In some fights, swiftcast should be saved for situational use. An example is during Garuda, in which during phase 1, you'll want to swiftcast+flare the feathers as soon as they all spawn on top of her.

[Garnatian]

Swiftcast should mainly be used for 2 things as a BLM, movement casts and casts that are longer than the GCD.

[Malevicton]

Generally when you use fire3 you already have umbral stacks, and if you are in such a situation swiftcast will work better with fire1 (you can get the firestarter proc before the gcd is up on an insta-fire. Save yourself a cast). Beside that specific situation, though, people are right so far. It's main uses are flare/mobility/opener.