Quote Originally Posted by Lemon8or View Post
Actually, if you want to use rotation, here:
HT-ID-Dis-CT-Ph-TT-VT-FT-HT-TT-VT-FT-Ph-ID-Dis-CT-HT-TT-VT-FT-Ph-TT-VT-FT
Sure, it would seem that DRG would lose 230 potency (+100-330 Math is hard) over the duration of this rotation, but wait there's more. If you continue with a FT while the optimal rotation goes to HT, you actually only lose 70 potency. The point is how much you lose also depends on where in the rotation you end it.
I see where you are coming from but its a bit more complex than that, always resulting in a higher potency loss than 70. How much you lose depends on where you end the rotation this is true. In the optimal rotation in the example for 13 hits you would lose out on a PB for 320 versus a missed HT for 100, resulting in 220 potency lost. As you say depending on where you end the rotation this loss might be lower. Thats why Riichi came to a loss of only 50 potency because he compared a missed HT 100 potency to a TT for 150, although its pretty clear that you already lose 70 just from the missed positional attack alone (HT from flank 170 pot vs HT not from flank 100).

Now if you want the average potency loss you have to compare the missed HT to the average potency of all DRG attacks used in the rotation which is exactly 258.75 (170+180+220+500+320+150+200+330/8).

Everytime you are doing a missed positional for 100 potency, you are not doing 258.75, so a loss of 158.75 potency on average. Technically its a bit higher than that since we are not acounting fos buffs yet.
Hope i could clear it up a bit without making it too complicated.