Quote Originally Posted by Pyitoechito View Post
Of course. It would be a DPS loss to not cast all six Fire IV's every fire phase. Flare Star isn't such a DPS gain that anyone would want to cut the rotation down to three F4s or cast F1 over F4. The only time this would be optimal is if the boss is about to become untargetable, then it would actually be a boon to be able to cast Flare Star earlier in fire phase to get it out before the boss becomes untargetable and you lose the cast (we like mechanics-based optimization, right?).

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And if they're absolutely dead set on Flare Star requiring six stacks and cannot be budged, they can STILL have each umbral heart turn orange, and then have those orange umbral hearts start crackling and flaming one by one.