Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Ayvar]

The same situation will apply to the last tick of that same DOT. The Final Tick will happen and there will be window of 2.5 seconds where your debuff has fallen off, but you have not actually missed any potential DOT ticks. Applying the DOT debuff before the 2.5 would still ensure 100% uptime.

This can also work the other way, if a DOT is applied just before the Servers DOT GCD pulse, your debuff could be visible on the target for 2+ seconds, but the final Tick has already landed. So you Could reapply the DOT Debuff early without actually clipping.

Currently it is nearly impossible to track this pulse (set up a metronome?)... but in the future we may be able to create an addon that would impact our rotation.

I think the reason there hasn't been much discussion on the subject is that it is completely out of our control. As you say, we may be able to do something to account for it later, but at the moment there's nothing we can do.

As for being able to reapply the DoT, even if it is done ticking, the DoT debuff is still registered as being on the mob, so an unbuffed DoT will still not overwrite a buffed DoT even if the buffed DoT has ticked already in the final 3s of its duration. You must wait for the DoT debuff on the mob to completely disappear before even casting the next DoT.