When to use Flare?

[NoctisUmbra]

I have used the Flare only rotation and it's of very little use in any real situation.

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

I'm sincerely not sure what you must be doing or seeing that you would suggest a Fire II rotation having superior DPS to a Flare only rotation in Bray. The only scenario I can think of, is things are dying so fast because you're with another competent DPS that after your first few Flares the mobs don't have enough HP to allow you to finish a strong cast. In which case, yes using a weak ass spell that hits them all instead of effectively doing nothing for their remaining little HP would be more DPS in that specific scenario.


What I'm referring to is that your DPS output with the Flare only rotation is significantly higher than with the Fire II > Flare rotation. That much cannot be contested.

With the Transpose timing being significant, there is already reason to keep Fire II on your bar I suppose. If you're in that specific situation where you know your targets will die before you finish a hard cast Flare, then by all means Fire II away.

Point remains, there's no scenario where you would be able to fully finish a Blizzard II/III > Fire III > Fire II x 3 > Flare rotation on multiple targets where Transpose > Flare x 2 wouldn't do more DPS.