Do you think the devs intended multi-flare blm?

[Gormogon]

Still Waiting .

1.) Soldiery hasn't been reset
2.) I don't do my soldiery runs early but late in the afternoon.

So if you wanna keep waiting go ahead.

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That's a bad triple flare rotation since those fire 2's are gimped.

Second thing you described is a poor mans flare and blm resort to it during the 2nd pull group pull in brayflox if they kill the 1st boss fast enough that their cooldowns are not up yet.

After several hundreds of pugs in 2.2, my experience is very different. BLM + BLM absolutely melts everything. Other classes simply don't even come close. A raging strikes flare crit on 6 mobs is way way beyond anything any other class can dish. SMN can get close but only with great luck on the bane spreads.

I don't even get to triple flare in BR HM anymore if the pulls are perfect since the people I group with a BLM in 90 gear and levi weapon does enough damage to melt the groups, with the help of the warriors overpower spam and healers holy or scholars shadow flare.

[Raenryong]

That's a bad triple flare rotation since those fire 2's are gimped.

Second thing you described is a poor mans flare and blm resort to it during the 2nd pull group pull in brayflox if they kill the 1st boss fast enough that their cooldowns are not up yet.

It's not though - it's far more DPS. You can either calculate this mathematically, or via use of parse.

(01:03) Raid DPS: 1835; YOU - 1199DPS (65%) - first pull
(01:08) Raid DPS: 1466; YOU - 878DPS (59%) - second pull
(00:55) Raid DPS: 1240; YOU - 842DPS (67%) - third pull

i81 BLM, no Foe Requiem.

"Standard" methods tend to top out below that, even with better gear than mine (which is nothing special).