When to use Flare?

[JetBrooks]

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

It's good advice for a perfect world with perfect players. I've encountered tanks that can't hold hate during flare spam. You can ask them to try and spam flash/overpower all you want, but if they can't hold hate, they can't hold hate.

Also, you may find yourself in a situation where one mob is going to die before the others, bringing the count down to 2 mobs. In this situation, I'd rather use a Fire 2 (one mob dies) and go into my single-target rotation for optimal DPS. Scenarios are too dynamic to say that you should only do one thing at all times.

Flare spam is friggin great when you can use it, though.