Do you think the devs intended multi-flare blm?

[Moirear]

BLM dps is highly overrated. Parsing has skewed some people's perception of it further.

BLM AoE dps is arguably very high in the triple Flare rotation. But it's only really worth it as a multi-target technique. It's made way better as a BLM+BRD combination with the BRD putting up Foe Requiem first, letting the BLM triple Flare, then hitting all sorts of damage buffs, dropping FoeReq and then finishing them off. At least, this is how it is in most of the best speedruns I've been in.

BLM+BLM for instance is not nearly as effective. Towards the end of enemy health the rotation is not very good, Fire II spam works but is not as fast and effective as it were, and the Flare rotation takes too much time to warrant the overkill it produces.

Also, something I noticed is that some BLM seemingly don't understand the importance of Quelling Strikes. It seems like it was made cross-class-able for them simply for this reason. Normally a tank of equal ilvl has no problem holding hate against BLMs unless they proc and crit a lot, but it's really the multi-Flare rotation where the BLM generates ridiculous amounts of enmity on hordes, where Quelling Strikes suddenly makes a huge impact. BLMs in the endgame who don't obtain it and actually use it when needed are somewhere between "liability" and "irresponsible." Either way, it's in the toolset of BLMs, SMNs and BRDs for a reason, they create ridiculous enmity and this helps tanks manage it more easily while doing other things than just spamming Flash or Overpower just to desperately hold hate.

Finally, IMHO, there are huge drawbacks to BLM as a DPS job. First off, it's one of the worst single-target DPS jobs. BLM isn't as good as some people think in any situation where you have to kill a single, super-tough target. The other DPS are way better at this. Secondly, as soon as a fight is move-intensive (which is literally everything from T5 onward in Coil over Extreme Primal duties, i.e. all the difficult content) their dps drops significantly—BLM is a heavy turret type DPS.