When to use Flare?

[Ringabell]

In most situations the use of Fire II will provide more DPS, I.e. Bray speed runs.

Not from what I've seen.

In Brayflox HM you're going to have upwards of 10-15 mobs on the Tank. In the Fire II rotation the Fire III is a HUGE DPS drop. That Fire III will hit one enemy for a few hundred HP. It's a waste. In the Flare-Only rotation there are no single target attacks so every attack is doing several thousand HP damage (a few hundred HP for the first Flare x10 mobs). Think of the first Flare as almost like a Fire II. You're just cutting out the HORRIBLE Fire III damage and cycling Fire II & Flare.

The only SLIGHT lull is the 2 second wait, which is really nothing considering that the alternative is wasting an entire GC on a Fire III attack that does practically nothing.

I really don't see how anyone could try both rotations and ignore the horrible Fire III DPS drop.