I just wanna doublecheck something (BLM)

[Karilyn]

To elaborate, Fire = 150 Potency and 2.5s Cast Time. Fire II = 100 Potency and 3s Cast Time. This means Fire is 60 P/s and Fire II is 33.3 P/s so casting Fire II on at least two mobs will be higher DPS than Fire (In the short run. MP cost will affect how much damage you do for an extended period).

Good point; the only major issue is the mana difference; 3 Fire IIs per astral phase vs 5 Fire I (assuming a Fire 3 to get me to Astral II). Though I think I failed to properly mention part of his complaint was that I was using Thunder II on the mobs at the start of the fight instead of going straight into Fire II (Yay half dozen Thundercloud procs?). My general goal in dungeons has always been to try and end each fight at the very end of an Astra phase, so I spend as much time in combat as possible in Astra phase. I think I was thinking I shouldn't use Fire II at that point, because if I used Fire II, I'd have to have a whole extra Umbra Phase per each pack of mobs, and I think I was figuring the DPS loss of Umbra made Fire II on 3 mobs not worthwhile.

I'm... pretty sure the difference, factoring in extra Umbra phase, is reasonably negligible (probably in the range of a 10% difference), and not entirely worth calculating out which is better in low level dungeons since rotation is different at 50 anyway. Besides, as I main a Paladin, I'm not super comfortable dumping full AOE attacks on a level 34 Paladin Tank that doesn't even have Shield Oath yet, that's moderately tricky to hold aggro against even for a skilled and well geared player (and this tank kept losing aggro on tertiary targets to the healer, so I would've just been grabbing ALL THE AGGRO EVER).

Blech, I'm over-thinking this. It's just the second time in 10+ years I've been kicked form a group in an MMO, so it's sorta giving me a weird pseudo-anxiety attack over "WHAT DID I DO WRONG?" Like you said, it's Brayflox, it's not hard, and the rotation does change at 50 because of Flare.