Quote Originally Posted by Bardo View Post
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That's correct. And further expanding on my idea of reversing the SS/HS opening order, I did some parser testing over the last 3 days on mlvl 50 dummies and found the best rotation (including opening) over 3 minute periods to actually start with HS and SS as the first two skills. I was as shocked as you probably are, that delaying getting WB and VB up didn't have long term (boss fight wise) effects of a negative nature. But in the end, the best rotation I could find for said duration basically was such because of having 100% cd uptime on all but IR during the first Barrage duration. And the 2nd and 3rd cycles of certain cds also aligned such that there were never less than 2 active during their 2nd/3rd activations.

Now obviously quite a few fights are longer than 3 minutes, but since the longest cd timer on any of them is also that duration, that's why I chose to test that way.