Do you think the devs intended multi-flare blm?

[Illya]

-no crits, no procs, no burst, welcome to RNG

our numbers are big, sure, but that doesn't mean anything.
in comparison to the other dds blm is just too weak in single target dmg with big flaws (looking at the wasted firestarter procs). even on a puppet fight mnk, drg, smn outdamages the blm easily (bard might be on parse with blm). consider that puppet fights are stationary fights and turreting should be our strenght (where we cannot shine either), so when it's a movement heavy fight, we can hole up in a corner and wave from the back.
don't get me wrong, I do agree that melee dds should do more dps than ranged dds if they can maintain a good uptime and I don't want the blm dps to go over the top, but I don't get it why blm should do less than a summoner on a stationary fight or close to equal dmg as a bard.

I was beating up the level 50 dummies in Whitebrim the last couple days trying to decide which DPS class I wanted to bring to Turn 8. I main a WAR so this whole DPS hierarchy thing is foreign to me. I tested out BRD, DRG, and BLM. All 3 classes were pretty similarly geared out, i90 mostly from farmed Allagan drops and Levi EX weapons. All 3 classes were geared with a focus on ACC, which probably means some other secondary stat wasn't being optimized but you need a lot of ACC to not miss The Avatar. Anyways, I had various other people with me during these tests, people who main DRG, BRD, and BLM and they verified my numbers. Each test run went for about 5 minutes of continuously bashing the dummy senseless.

It didn't take me that much testing, with me beating the dummy up and my DPS friends beating it up, to determine that assuming I could grok the rotation DRG would output the most DPS. This should surprise no one. If I couldn't run a good DRG, then I should bring my BRD. What surprised everyone there was that there was no situation where I could justify bringing my BLM, it was losing by a wide margin to my DRG in damage output and at best it was close to even with my BRD, but when I wasn't getting crits and procs it was even falling behind the BRD in damage output. And the BLM brought no group utility like the BRD did, and it wasn't anywhere near the hypothetical peak uptime damage output of the DRG.

I enjoy playing my BLM in Bray SRs though. It feels good to melt a whole pack of trash with a few Flares.