BLM feedback.

[Turtledeluxe]

Still not understanding the less fire, less potency Flare Star. Why not just get rid of it then? We already have Fire IV and Flare. What is the point of a weak Flare Star?

Flare Star could not be a more obvious misplaced action. It's a Flare II, let's be real. They just didn't want it to be perceived as an AoE exclusive so they made up this whole rotation that encourages you to drop it in your single target rotation. Making it weaker, reducing the requirements, just makes it Fire IV redundant instead of Deapair/finisher redundant as it currently is.

If they wanted a new finisher then they should have just actually done that. After the requisite Fire IV, Despair becomes Flare Star and becomes 1.2k potency or something. Making it easier to get or weaker does nothing for the job at all.

And I see no reason why they didn't do this except worrying too much about BLM DPS, which they totally messed up and had to correct with a patch, which sadly left Flare Star in its same fairly meaningless state.