BLM possibly bugged?

[Adamantium]

Wrong.
It is removed 0.5sec before the spell is cast and it only happens when you are under AF 3 or UI 3.
Test it by yourself, UI 1 and 2 are not removed before the spell hits, only UI 3 does. And that sucks for sure.
Why should our UI 3 be removed before the spell hits ? They could simply work harder and fix the double dip flare without this kind of amateurish fix.
Or at least do the same with Firestarter procs ?

By "on cast", I meant when the spell is finished casting. 0.5 seconds left on your cast time is pretty much finished casting due to the latency in this game. Guess I should have clarified. ;< I don't spend a lot of time in UI/AF 1/2, so I never noticed that issue, but it makes sense considering you don't get halved casting times.

They definitely could have found a different fix, but I think they just wanted to get rid of double dipping in general, and Yoshida used Flare as an example.

[Kuroyasha]

Ive noticed this while going through Coil and doing extremes. 1st time it happened i was like "WTF?!" lol. I started testing it and it even happened when everything was "ideal" (not invulnerable, im facing mob, mob not running to a different spot, etc.). It doesn't happen a whole lot, but when it does....boy do things get slow for a little while xD

[synaesthetic]

I actually really like the newer behavior because now, when casting Fire III right after building up to Umbral Ice III, the cast time reduction doesn't get all snarled up and confused and cause me to sit there for 6 seconds "casting" Fire III with no visible cast bar.

[Youmu]

Its because of SE's sloppy "fix" for double flaring. It just happened to break a ton of other things with the class.