When to use Flare?

[scarebearz]

Agree with pretty much everything from the last 3 posters.

@NoctisUmbra As a Monk main, you may thing BLM is easy and that you know best, but to get top DPS for Coil2, Primal's etc, it actually does take a fair bit to master.

Using your method, how long does a full Bray run take on average, with a decent whm, war/pld and brd/blm?

[NoctisUmbra]

@NoctisUmbra As a Monk main, you may thing BLM is easy and that you know best, but to get top DPS for Coil2, Primal's etc, it actually does take a fair bit to master.

I have MNK as my main because I'm partial to it for casual reasons. I just think it's cool. Has a special place in my heart. Since early 1.0, however, I have always played and mastered all DPS classes/jobs to have the flexibility for all content. Also because that's what makes this game fun for me - mixing it up.

I have no real main. I main DPS. Getting top DPS in Coil 2 or Primals as a BLM doesn't mean you mastered your job. It means you were either better geared than the other jobs, or they had bad performance. You may very well be a master of your job, or maybe not.

Save for Garuda, all of the extreme primals (some more than others) put BLM at a disadvantage. Even when they don't, they are very much single-target heavy and BLM is closer to the lower end of the tier when it comes to single-target DPS - at least until 2.3. As for Coil2, all of the fights favor melee DPS heavily, save for T9 - in which case BRD and SMN do exceptionally well.