Repose in dungeons?

[Tzain]

On the subject on AOE, After playing Black Mage and white mage to 50....I still don't get what everyone is so obsessed about.
I mean, if we're talking about a swarm of 5-8 mobs that have low health and need to burn down? (Aurum Vale Seedlings) Then YES! accept no substitutes. But on 3 or less mobs I just don't see the amount of damage done as being that much more useful than just focus firing a target. I did some napkin math and single target with average proc rates of firestarter had about 3 times the potency/second of Fire II and that's not even taking into consideration the mana efficiency and how long your burn phase is. Generally speaking 4 mobs seems like the bare minimum to make fire II worth casting.

If the healer cant contribute to the total damage done because of Fire II breaking CC then that's just a double whammy of inefficiency.

(If memory serves, the potency/second of Fire II was 33, the potency/second on Fire I + Firestarter procs was 99 when adjusted for GCD and % rates.)

Of course, I freely admit to being pretty bad at black magery, so most likely I'm doing it wrong.

[Simaril]

On the subject on AOE, After playing Black Mage and white mage to 50....I still don't get what everyone is so obsessed about.
I mean, if we're talking about a swarm of 5-8 mobs that have low health and need to burn down? (Aurum Vale Seedlings) Then YES! accept no substitutes. But on 3 or less mobs I just don't see the amount of damage done as being that much more useful than just focus firing a target. I did some napkin math and single target with average proc rates of firestarter had about 3 times the potency/second of Fire II and that's not even taking into consideration the mana efficiency and how long your burn phase is. Generally speaking 4 mobs seems like the bare minimum to make fire II worth casting.

If the healer cant contribute to the total damage done because of Fire II breaking CC then that's just a double whammy of inefficiency.

(If memory serves, the potency/second of Fire II was 33, the potency/second on Fire I + Firestarter procs was 99 when adjusted for GCD and % rates.)

Of course, I freely admit to being pretty bad at black magery, so most likely I'm doing it wrong.

This is along the lines of what I was thinking. I was hoping someone might show why AoE is better or worse in a given circumsatance. I'm also afraid that my lack of experience as a Blm means I'm missing something???