Do you think the devs intended multi-flare blm?

[Tiggy]

We already got nerfed because people did exactly this already once, SE stated that this is exploiting the mechanics of the game but it's their job to try and not make it possible. you are timing your cast so that you get the boost of umbral ice, even though you are technically in astral fire, that would be kinda the definition of an exploit, manipulating the game in order to receive 2 bonuses when the game only allows for 1 to be active at a time.

It's not an exploit if you could do it by accident very easily. Which is something I've done many times playing BLM in the past as have many others. Unless they fundamentally change the way the class works with umbral fire and ice then this will continue to happen whether it is intentional or not. Players playing the game as it is presented are not exploiting it. Also, if you were technically in astral fire as you say then this wouldn't even happen. Obvious there is an aspect to the spell casting that doesn't apply astral fire until the very last moment of the spell taking effect which allows for a window where astral ice can still tick. We as players have no ability to change this fact. As long as it continues to work this way players will continue to do it. As I said, often by accident. Calling it an exploit would suggest that all the players who see this by accident are now worthy of a ban. They are not.