Basic rotation but now with five times the length for free!
I can start discussion off with a very terrible sales pitch.
So, I know it's happened to every monk. You're doing your basic rotation of only the 6 single-target GCDs in a vacuum and you think to yourself: "This is nice and all, but if I ever end up not using Dragon Kick and Twin Snakes in the same combo, I'll never be able to naturally return to the starting point of all three stack-generating GCDs in a single combo. I just wish this basic-rotation-specifically-in-a-vacuum-with-no-other-abilities-aside-from-opening-with-Form-Shift would cover every possible permutation of GCDs so it can always return to the starting point of all three stack-generating GCDs no matter where I end up!!"
Well, have no fear, because I definitely heard all of you and not just me muttering incoherently to myself alone at night!
The current 1-1-2 of fury stacks (1 Opo, 1 Raptor, 2 Coeurl) does mimic pre-DT monk basic rotation, but it doesn't naturally include every possible combination of stack-generating and stack-spending GCDs when starting from an initial (Form Shift) Dragon Kick → Twin Snakes → Demolisher. Those specific permutations being any time Dragon Kick is not paired with Twin Snakes (and vice versa):- Dragon Kick → Rising Raptor → Demolisher
- Dragon Kick → Rising Raptor → Pouncing Coeurl
- Leaping Opo → Twin Snakes → Demolisher
- Leaping Opo → Twin Snakes → Pouncing Coeurl
It also only takes a mere 18 GCDs to do the full loop back to all-generating GCDs, or 36s at a GCD of 2.00s.
There is a solution to your woes, and it's not the 7.0 1-2-3 stacks! Not even 1-2-3 covers all permutations! In a vacuum, 1-2-3 misses two permutations: Leaping Opo → Twin Snakes/Rising Raptor → Demolisher. Even if the full loop of 1-2-3 is twice the length of the current 1-1-2, it's no good!
Therefore, I give you... 1-2-4 (with a linked spreadsheet)!
That's 90 GCDs per full loop, or 180s if your GCD is the baseline 2.00s! Five times the value of the current 1-1-2! How could anyone get bored in a vacuum when your basic rotation lasts up to three minutes?! So much value!
Every permutation is included! No matter what combination of generator and spender GCDs you put into a combo, you'll always have a path back to the baseline all-generator GCD combo. Did your Perfect Balance misalign your Dragon Kick and Twin Snakes? No problem! With 1-2-4, you're still in the basic rotation somewhere!
1-2-4, the perfect number of stacks with absolutely no flaws whatsoever! Nothing anyone could possibly complain about!
Oh gods someone send help my ADHD hyperfixation kicked in last weekend and I spent seven straight hours writing Google Sheets formulas and now I don't know where I am! There's a tin of old shoe polish and a dirty cloth in my hands and there's bottles of some name-brand spray degreaser all over the floor. I'M NOT EVEN A MONK MAIN!!!
Wait, there's a note here. It reads: "If you want, you can make a copy of the spreadsheet and put other values into the blue cells to see how the rotation changes with different stack values. Fun fact: 1-1-3 is the smallest loop with at least one unique stack value!" ... What does that MEAN?!