Quote Originally Posted by EasymodeX View Post
This is a phenomenally bad comparison because you frontload the second cycle of bootshine in the second example, skewing the average damage upward inaccurately. Same as that ayvar guy. Facepalm.

BS ID TW SP
DK TW SP

Is 1165 over 7 = 166.4

BS TR SP
DK TS SP

Is 165.8 potency per GCD.

The gap is larger when you factor in actual crit rates (you will have a 10-50% actual crit rate, reducing the value of Bootshine's autocrit).
Bootshine is 100% crit rate from behind in Opo-opo form. That alone should give you an incentive to move from Bootshine to Bootshine quickly. You also only have 6 GCDs in your second example instead of the first's 7. So your comparison is wholly inaccurate. You need to compare 7 GCDs vs 7 GCDs. Numbers still do not lie. So yea, facepalm.