BRD Cooldown sequence?

[gotaplanstan]

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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.

[pandabearcat]

found the best rotation (including opening) over 3 minute periods to actually start with HS and SS as the first two skills.

I wouldn't put much faith in that kind of testing, because the damage difference is 150 or so potency over the course of 3 minutes, the total potency of which is at least in the 20k area, not including autoattacks or cooldowns. It is a 0.8% damage change max, and that is pretty impossible to see during testing.

What you are seeing is more likely natural variation in proc differences, etc.

The math proves you wrong.