Is fracture even worth using as a DRG?

Maybe I'm not understanding how dot's work in this game, but fracture just doesn't seem worth casting at all. 100 potency attack with a 20 potency dot? Does the 20 potency mean 20 potency per dot tick? It's a 15 second dot which gives it a potency of 200 overall right?

Or is it only a 180 potency attack because you actually only get 4 ticks of the dot minus the initial hit? The dot does damage every 3 seconds correct?

Someone please enlighten me.

Thanks!

think of it as a 220 potency attack. its good but not amazing

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Originally Posted by xyaie

think of it as a 220 potency attack. its good but not amazing

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Ah sorry, just looked it up and saw it's an 18 second dot, not 15.

So that's 5 instances of dot damage? or is it 6? Do you get 1 dot tick immediately when you use the ability (A 100 potency hit plus a single 20 potency dot tick at the same time)? Otherwise this would make it a 200 potency attack overall.

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Originally Posted by Xiroth

Ah sorry, just looked it up and saw it's an 18 second dot, not 15.

So that's 5 instances of dot damage? or is it 6? Do you get 1 dot tick immediately when you use the ability (A 100 potency hit plus a single 20 potency dot tick at the same time)? Otherwise this would make it a 200 potency attack overall.

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That's not how DoTs work, but still with the way they currently work yes, you'll on average only get about 5 ticks from it.

I keep it on my cross skills/hotbar but I don't regularly put it up every single time I can. I've read the Rotation Reborn thread. My real world parses disagree with his conclusions. I've tried his rotation of constantly putting in Fracture into the rotation vs me taking it out. I pull 10-20 more DPS WITHOUT constantly using it in there than when I do. The reason for this is, the attack isn't that strong to begin with and also you need to start factoring off GCD buffs/attacks. Dragoons have a lot of them. They may be off the GCD but a lot of them have animations that will clip into the next GCD, like Jump. It's still worth using but it pushes your next attack back by a split second. You do enough of those in your rotation and the problem with having Fracture in there is that you will just barely miss Heavy Thrust/Disembowel most of the time with the last hit of your 3 part combo. Not having Fracture in there means that never happens, and also the DoT application is much tighter.

Now that's not to say I never use it. I still do which is why I have it on. In the end, I found the best rotation is to not use it in your "first phase" of your rotation, use it on the 2nd, don't use it on the third. The entire rotation resets at this point and repeat (don't use it on the first, use it on second, etc).

Also I do use it in situations/bosses where I know I will not be able to hit the boss constantly. He may move around, or I may need to leave the boss to hit adds. At that point, I'll hit the boss with all the DoTs, including Fracture, just so damage is still ticking on him while I'm not connecting with him.

So as you can see, it's still useful in certain situations and I do still keep it on my cross skills. But I don't think it's to be used every single time. Again, the theory crafting pie in the sky thinking may say one thing, me spending hours hitting training dummies with a parser tell me another. Real world > theory.