AOE-acceptable,when?

[Quaine]

I think AoE will be useful in PVP. LOL

[svann]

When is it acceptable to use AOE Spell for BLM or THM in battle as they seem to draw a a lot of complaints from fellow players?

Id say its ok if you see all the mobs are taking damage already, or just give it a little time and then you know the tank has to have good aggro on them or else they would be going for the healer, right?
edit: but watch out for slept mobs.
:-)
edit2: if you get a pop-spawn of 10 mobs then you can be pretty sure those are intended to aoe.

[pandabearcat]

Generally you only want to AoE sporadically if your tank has marked focus targets.

If you are a summoner, you should always be baning, and dropping shadow flare. It is rough on a tank because your dots are doing ~135 every tick w/o thunder, 170 with, but it makes every run SO much faster. If they consistently cannot hold threat they're probably a paladin heh, but you need to be baning....its ridiculous, upwards of 1700 potency on EACH target with 1 off GCD ability? Yes please =)