When to use Flare?

[scarebearz]

W-wait.. what? How can Transpose > Fire III > Flare ever be better than Transpose > Flare > Flare in an AoE environment. You have completely lost me there.

Usually after the Transpose the mobs will be under 20% hp, you wont get the 2nd flare off fast enough (it's faster to use Fire III right away on the first tick), so you'll only be hitting with a single flare under Astral Ice.

Again situational, but this situation is a very common one.

That's basically impossible unless he messed up the Flare only rotation - which is not uncommon. I am also assuming these weren't dungeon instance-length parses, but rather parses of individual packs of AoE burns.

They were full dungeon-legnth and 3 runs. He said his rotations were fine.