Summoner DPS Rotation

[pandabearcat]

Do you have any data that supports Ifrit being superior to Garuda? I mean I certainly haven't tested, but contagion is pretty nice for RS'd DoTs and Ifrit being melee makes it hard to use on most fights.

I don't understand what you mean by "constantly blowing GCDs". Do you mean constantly casting? If you're not constantly casting, are you just sitting there looking pretty? I mean I'm fairly attractive myself, but I don't think I could make a boss fall down just by batting my eyelashes.

Snarkiness aside, I feel that you should always be casting. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying here. My rotation isn't a "mess" because its pretty straightfoward in what it attempts to accomplish.

It sets up dots, festers early to make sure you can fester again within RS timeframe, and it uses contagion to max effectiveness, while also putting up pet buffs and enkindle in a reasonable timeframe.

I understand what you're saying about using the cooldowns early, but you may be a little overzealous in that. You will only miss 1 Enkindle if the fight lasts exactly 5 minutes. If it lasts any more than 5 minutes and 15 seconds, I'll get the same number of enkindles as you do.

The philosophy is sound, that is, "use your shortest cooldowns as quickly as possible to get as many uses as possible", but prioritizing a 5 minute cooldown like enkindle is kinda silly. Furthermore delaying spur/rouse by around 10 seconds isn't the end of the world either...you get far more damage out of getting your dots up early.

Again, this is the very opening rotation, aka, when everything is up, and going by the philosophy (which I agree with) that you need to dump your cooldowns asap, ruin II provides that without losing GCDs, which is a huge dps decrease.

Every time you use an off GCD ability on a GCD, you lose at least 40 potency from pushing back half a ruin. That does add up, you know.

I have never had a healer rip aggro immediately (let alone Eos), isn't that what coordination and stoneskin is for? Furthermore, it is not your job to worry about healer aggro. Your job is to stay alive and kill enemies asap. It is true that healers do put out tons of threat, but unless you have a crazed WHM spamming medica II like its going out of style, and one that forgets what shroud of saints is for, its a nonissue.

You can certainly pop virus and eye for an eye immediately, but their intended purpose again isn't to save healer threat, its to keep your tank alive. So just like you want to save swiftcast for an instares, I choose to save virus and eye for when the tank actually needs it (say, right before/after a mountain buster).

But that isn't even really the issue here. You can pop them whenever, but I don't see why that rotation is so anathema to you. It is of course inefficient mana wise, but that is the cost of being the most efficient damagewise. Furthermore, the goal is to get your festers out asap so you can aetherflow again, putting you at max mana. So initial mana use is kind of a moot point. What will OOM you is DoT upkeep, specifically Thunder.

EDIT: also you can edit your initial post to more than 1000 characters instead of posting more than one post.