Blackmage Keybind suggestion?

[Garotte14]

Much bad advice in this thread there is. Opener for level 50 BLM is as follows.
Blizzard 3 > Thunder 1 > Fire 3 > raging strikes > Fire 1 x 5 (procs as well) > Swiftcast > Flare > Convert > Fire 1 > Blizzard 3 > Thunder 1

You can also through a potion in after your first Fire 1 if you're feeling froggy.

Do not, I repeat, do not macro any skills on the same keybind. Every ability had it's specific purpose which you'll need to get used to.

The abilities you''ll never need are thunder 2 and freeze. I use blizz 2 on occasion so I keep it available just incase, but not necessary. If you don't raid, you can probably through out surcast. Everything else is useful

In regards to blizzard 1, this is still a useful skill, even at level 60, but much more so at level 50. It's primary use is a filler. I can think of 3 circumstances that make it useful. One, you cast blizzard 3 and get a very slow mana tick during your thunder cast or have really high spell speed, use blizzard 1 while waiting for your mana to fill up. Two, you use a thundercloud proc near the end of your astral fire phase so after you use blizzard 3, you still have 18+ seconds on thunder. You wouldn't want to fill that time by casting another thunder while waiting for mana. Three, would be if you screwed up and were left with zero mp with no transpose. (After a flare for example) You will get a blizzard 1 before anything else to hurry up and get you back into umbral ice.