When to use Flare?

[Maero]

Umm not familiar,really? I have spent a great deal of time as others have testing different rotations.
I only flare after my mana is low and if you actually think there is no dps loss doing flare after transpose well just ask other blm's that have been at it for a while, you will see that their is a loss of dps indeed if casting flare after transpose.
And i do not do 2x flares i do 3x flares which is far more potent then 2x flares, and more then 3 flares as was posted is also a loss of dps.
Not trying to be rude but do some testing and see the results, test dummies is not the best way of getting numbers, it helps but some on the blm rotation post i think have tested using parsers
Not saying your beginning aoe rotation is wrong at all as others do it so as well, but again the transpose> flare i do not agree about
Really at the end of the day do what you feel is best,if a rotation works for you then by all means use it.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, isn't it better to stick to a single-target rotation if there are only 2 mobs?

Another time you can use flare is at the end of your single-target rotation if you have swiftcast & convert up. Of course you only want to do this if you don't need the swiftcast & convert up later for certain DPS checks.

I wouldn't say never use Fire 2, because some tanks simply can't handle Flare spam, unfortunately. You may have to use Fire 2's in situations where the tank can't handle you generating hate as quickly as you will using Flare spam.

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