Quote Originally Posted by Fayto View Post
No, it is not 2.5. If you miss Impulse Drive, you have to redo the entire skill. That right there is already 6 seconds of lost DPS because you have to recast Impulse Drive. The second Impulse Drive could have been time spent casting Disembowel, so after casting Impulse Drive a second time you then have to cast Disembowel which could be time spent casting Chaos thrust. That right there is 9 seconds of lost DPS because you missed the first part of the combo because you have to recast. You are only counting the time of one Impulse Drive but you did not waste one Impulse Drive, you wasted an entire Chaos Thrust combo.

I know I am using the base recast time and rounding up which is the incorrect way to do it since skillspeed reduces the time, but seeing as how skillspeed sucks for Dragoon I decided to remove it from the equation all together. Not only do you not understand how Dragoon works, you seem to not understand how DPS works either.

Edit: Already discredited yourself with your moronic posts, btw. Also your "alt" gear is bad and you should feel bad.
You dont have to like my gear. Its an alt. My main is boss enough.

You conflate an under 2.5 second skill into a 3 and turn that into 9 and IM bad at math?
0 Seconds: This is the moment you lance hits a monster and you hit the button to do a skill. Agreed? Still with me? OK. So you hit a button at 0 seconds. 1st skill STARTS at 0 seconds? With me?
2.5 seconds: That skill you hit at 0 seconds GCD is now over. Now you can hit another button. Following? 2.5 sec is the moment you hit button #2.
5 seconds: GCD no longer grayed out. Now you can hit Button #3 because the PREVIOUS GCD from #2 is now over allowing you to hit #3.
7.5 seconds: So on and so forth

If you miss one skill you redo 1 skill. EG:
Hit.
0sec HT, 2.5sec TT, 5sec VT, 7.5sec True.

Whiff
0sec HT(Whiff), 2.5sec HT, 5sec TT, 7.5sec VT, 10sec True.

You get DELAYED by 2.5 sec. Everything just gets pushed back the span of a single 2.5 sec. Thats it. If you miss a single ID, then your Dis and CT are both applied: 2.5 seconds later than if you didnt whiff. According to your 9 second rule, im about to finish the 3rd hit of a combo at 10 seconds (see above)after a whiff, and you are still 'redoing' your 1st HT or ID. It doesnt work that way.

Dunno if you guys ever played starcraft or SC2 but this is the same flawed logic crops up with people talking about zerg buliding prices. Drone costs 50, hatch costs 300, replacement drone costs 50=450. You dont count 2 drones to make 1 building. its only 400.

Similarly, you dont count 2 GCD timers to do 1 GCD. 1GCD=/=2GCDs. 1GCD=1GCD. 1GCD=2.5sec(or less with SS obviously)