Optimal opener as BLM?

[Conradus]

I'm surious, how should we start fights as BLM?

Short wait for tank to get some hate. Thunder (because that's the cheapest opening for Thundercloud and it won't generate much hate; I can see the point of people who open with Thunder III, though). A little more time for the tank to build more hate before moving into full scale nuking with Fire III to get Astral Fire III immediately and then spamming Fire (which all-around better for general nuking than Fire III).