Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
Agreed with AoE, Fire II feels really clunky, just a somewhat pointless filler to use your first two umbral hearts on before you can Flare.

As for Thundercloud procs, it's always a DPS gain to just use it as soon as it pops up, even if you're in AF. Well, presuming using it won't cause you to drop Enochian.
As far as I am aware, Fire II isn't even part of the aoe rotation post 68 regardless of how many umbral hearts you actually have, because its damage just flat out doesn't justify it. And then seriously find some way for Fire 2 to be relevant to AoE. I'd go so far as giving it the Freeze treatment of letting it be an AF/UI swap spell and nudging its potency up so that 3 targets actually makes it do more damage than fire 4 does, and maybe then I'd consider using it.

And a QoL change I'd really like to see is changing sharpcast to be a trait instead of a button. By the time you have sharpcast as a 30s cooldown, I personally always use it for fire 3 procs (less likely to happen, adds substantially more versatility to your DPS rotation), and having to push the oGCD just gets annoying on a class that really doesn't like pushing oGCDs for something with fundamentally 100% up time. I'd rather just see the first sharpcast at 54 give fire 1 a guaranteed chance to proc fire 3 either with or without an internal cooldown, and then make the level 74 version of sharpcast buff the proc rate of Thunder spells by an amount. 3-5% for thunder 3, 1-2% for thunder 4. Also take aspect mastery and throw it down to level 30 or 40, because that's a massive QoL improvement on BLM and it should not be relegated to a high-end skill.