When to use Flare?

[NoctisUmbra]

The best advice as to why NOT to use the infinite flare rotation is you have to have a good grasp of the refresh timing of mana regen and be able to somewhat glitch the system to get a mana tick AS your flare is going off. This takes practice and skill, far more than being able to calculate when a fire II will take you below the MP minimum to cast flare.

Yes, playing well takes practice and skill.

That said, as far as properly timing your first Flare to get this to work, the window of input is approximately half a second wide. This is a rather large window, and one that is quite easy to get accustomed to with a bit of practice at the dummies. Just a few minutes should be enough, provided you know more or less where the window is, which as was mentioned is roughly just under 2 seconds after your first tick of MP.

Any BLM that would like to play their job optimally is encouraged to learn this, and love it, as I said earlier. Any BLM who is satisfied doing sub-optimal DPS can carry on doing Fire IIs.

[Maero]

Apparently character limit
Fire 2 is still very useful and even so in coil
Perhaps if you use Fire 3 after your transpose it would be fine, but flare directly after transpose, nope

[Ringabell]

Any BLM that would like to play their job optimally is encouraged to learn this, and love it, as I said earlier.

After reading this I decided to test it out on dummies. I got the timing down very quickly and the timing is very forgiving. And when you get the instant mana tick on Transpose those Flares are right on top of each other.

Fire III > Flare > Transpose *Wait 2 seconds* > Flare > Flare > Transpose *Wait 2 seconds......

Basically right after the mana tick of Transpose you count: "One Mississippi, TWO" and cast Flare ON the 2 (not after). After 5 minutes I was nailing it every single time.

I used Party Finder to do some Brayflox HM Soldiery runs and I was burning mobs down obscenely fast. And when you have Convert and Swiftcast you can do Triple Flares without the use of an item:

Fire III > Flare > Transpose *Wait 2 seconds* > Flare > Flare > Convert > Swiftcast Flare > Transpose *Wait 2 seconds*....

This is my new AoE rotation. Flares all day.