When to use Flare?

[NoctisUmbra]

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.

What do you do after you Transpose in your AoE rotation then? Please, do tell.

If it involves Transpose > Blizzard (III) > Fire III > Fire II spam > Flare > Transpose then I'm sorry to break it to you but the double Flare rotation is superior DPS. The only way it would dip below the Fire II rotation is if you screw it up.

When I refer to the double Flare rotation, I do not mean the opening rotation where everybody would use 2-3 Flares with access to Convert and an Ether. I'm referring to the extended rotation, where you chose to use 2 Flares between your Transposes instead of using any single target spells or Fire II.

To be honest I think this is pretty bad advice.

I'm curious... why do you think this is bad advice?