If you're doing a WP SR with a Bard, have them use Ballad during trash mobs.

Your AoE combo in this set up should be: Fire III> Flare > Blizzard III (repeat).

This gives you the most potency per GCD as far as AoEing trash mobs is concerned; more than a BRD singing you Requiem with the old "standard" AoE combo. Your fights will go much faster this way as in the time it takes to get the damage out of 3 Fire II's you just need to cast one Flare.

The breakdown: Fire III gives you Astral Fire III for increased damage. Flare is big damage but uses all MP and you have no MP regeneration in AF. Ballad will give you just enough MP to cast a Blizzard III to get a big chunk of MP. Fire III to set up Flare again and repeat. No need to use transpose after Flare this way (10s recast is quite limiting) and you do more total damage in less casts which means faster mob deaths.

However with this big increase in your damage you'll be getting more hate so be sure to inform your tank of your rotation so they know to spam Flash whenever possible. This won't be an issue for them because of Ballad already being up to increase your damage. If you have a WHM for a healer they can also now cast Holy whenever the tank doesn't need a cure without much need to watch their MP. Monsters die very fast in this method, faster than with Foe Requiem . Added incentive: After fights Ballad is already up so there's no need to waste 3 seconds casting it in between fights which means faster pulls as well.