Bard damage rotation opening sequence.

I'm trying to get this down so critique please.

1. Blood letter
2. Straight Arrow
3. Hawk Eye
4. Venomous Bite
5. Blood for blood
6. Windbite
7. Raging strikes
8. Flaming arrow
9. Barrage
10. Heavy shot
11. Internal release
12. Heavy shot
13. Straight shot.
14. Blood letter
15. Venomous bite
16. Windbite

The buff order is the way it is so that I can slightly clip the first round of DOTs and get both blood for blood and raging strikes on the next round. I put venomous up first so that the stronger dot could benefit from blood for blood both rounds.

Blood letter will be weaved in between GCDs if it does proc.

Would it be worth clipping at all? I would think so, but keeping track of all that to squeeze out a very little bit more dps can cause you to mess up and lose more dps than potential gain.

Anyway, advice? Missing anything?

This has been done to death already, please use your search function.

Here are a few threads with rotations:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1358999

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1389153

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ation-DPS-wise

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ldown-sequence

Etc.

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Originally Posted by pandabearcat

This has been done to death already, please use your search function.

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I did not see a single thought out priority order in any of those threads so posted this to get replies. I'll post it up in the first one you linked to keep you happy I suppose.