Quote Originally Posted by pandabearcat View Post
Well I can't really dig up my thread now, but basically looked at all the raw potency numbers of all summoner attacks (ignoring spell haste).

Essentially, what it boils down to is summons do roughly 22k potency over 180 seconds (cooldown of RS).

You spend 8-9 of those GCD's on thunder, which counts for something like 2300-2400 potency.

You instead use those GCDs to Ruin, which is ~740 potency.

So you lose 1660 potency over 180 seconds, which is ~9.2 pps which is roughly 7.5% total dps loss.

This includes pet approximations.
Two last questions just to be sure.

1.) Does 2300 - 2400 potency include Enkindle in the rotation? (Depending on the instance, I tend to save it)
2.) pps = potency per second? (I'm not familiar with the acronyms floating around the forums these days. )