Originally Posted by
DarkenedHue
The thing about just spamming FS 9 is you keep resetting the tick timer of the ground-based dot it leaves. You would, in effect, be completely forgoing the DoT component of FS's damage if you just spammed the same rank of FS. Since 1x full Flamestrike + 6 ticks of Blizzard does more damage than 4x Flamestrike casts that only use the direct damage component, which it quite likely would unless your crit chance was unrealistically high, using Blizzard as your choice of AoE filler to pick off low HP mobs with seems vastly more preferable when you also take into account the enormously increased area you're covering. Tanks are moving mobs all the time and FS with its pathetic radius is gravely sensitive to that. Overall, I wouldn't advocate putting that much stock in FS without stressing the caveats of its minuscule radius.