Quote Originally Posted by Altena View Post
A topic for discussion - How much can you clip Chaos Thrust before losing out on damage?

Raw potency, Chaos has a higher potency if you clip the debuff at 20 seconds (compared to Full Thrust).
The downside is that the DoT from Chaos is unaffected by the piercing damage from Disembowel.
So my question - at what point does clipping Chaos become better then doing a FT combo?

Eye-balling the math which I am pretty terrible at (going to leave Heavy Thrust out of this for now for simplicity). Also assume you will be clipping Disembowel (so account for piercing damage), values are in potency:
ID > Dis > CT(DoT)
= 198 + 242 + 220 + (300)
= 660 + DoT(300)

TT > VT > FT
= 165 + 220 + 363
= 748

Therefore the DoT from Chaos would have to do 88 potency (3 ticks, approximately 9 seconds) in order to be worth clipping rather then using FT.
So in other words - technically speaking, you would be better off clipping Chaos after those 3 ticks of DoT then you would if you were to do FT combo.

This does exclude Heavy & Life Surge (If Life Surge is up, then FT would definitely be more beneficial).

What do people think of this?

Huh? I don't know if I'm understanding you correctly but are you trying to say that clipping CT after 3 ticks is better then using FT combo filler lol?

You left out on your maths that CT dot will be ticking when both clipping CT and when using FT combo.

The only time you should be clipping CT by a large amount is if you knew there was a disconnect of 20s coming and could time your CT to hit just before the disconnect. There would need to be at least less then 21 seconds on CT at the time it hits for it to start becoming worth it.