BLM: Endgame guide and rotations

[Mhaeric]

This may be a dumb question. Im not online at the moment, but if I remember correctly, the flare ability states that it uses remaining mana. So why cant you get down to 1 mp and use flare still? I tried the other day and I think I had 256 mana, and flare was greyed out and couldnt use it. What am I missing.

There's a minimum amount of mp you need to be able to cast it. I don't recall exactly what it is off the top of my head, but it's around 270 or so.

Also, just to clarify because I got lost in a sea of arguing, for single target rotations: Should I use flare every time? Or just when I have swift cast, flare, and raging strikes? What about if I only have Swiftcast up, would it be worth to use since it would be instant? Or would there be a dps loss of some sort, since flare without convert would require transpose and the slow mana ticking from UI 1.

For single target, the only time Flare is effective to use is when you have both Convert and Swiftcast available. Since that's only once every 5 minutes, I usually don't bother. If you don't have both the casting time is too long for the dps and the regeneration phase afterwards is too slow to maintain the slight dps spike that Flare provided.