Do you think the devs intended multi-flare blm?

[whoopeeragon]

The only way you can do multi-flare is through convert/potions, which really only allows a maximum of 3 full-powered Flares in a row (excluding when you have a BRD playing Ballad....when they should be playing Foe Requiem). And that happens every 3 (I think Convert is 180sec recast?) minutes.

Of course, BLM is king of AoE, which, for speedruns, is pretty much putting them at top of the desired DPS slots.

But in all honesty, I think there's nothing wrong with it. Usually in a pack of mobs which are being AoE-ed, I won't even bother with using a basic combo, just spam Flash/Overpower/whatever AoE you have until you run out of MP/TP. And the double/triple Flare is, as I said, limited by cooldowns. Not to mention the BLM also has a period of time after Flare where they are unable to use spells until they recover sufficient mana.

Right now, AoE probably BLM's only asset apart from being ranged, because in movement-high battles which are aplenty in end-game content, BLM's dmg falls off quite some bit. They are probably the most movement-restricted job in the game, so for all those end-game fights with AoEs against solo targettable bosses? Yea, BLM got the coup' from king to peasant.