Quote Originally Posted by Cascadi View Post
The spreadsheet accounts for rapid fire and assumes you start with 5 ammo. If you do not start with 5 ammo, having Gauss Barrel at all in the opener is a large DPS loss, so if you do not want to use Reload/Quick Reload pre-pull, you can just go open without Gauss Barrel.
Can you explain (with formula and calculation or testing?):
1. why you would start with Gauss Barrel off instead of having it on and turn it off after the first clean shot (as others suggest)?
2. whether you would consider using Rapid Fire to have your Gauss Barrel up without casting for Gauss Round and Ricochet (with the dot perhaps)? If yes, would you do it every 90s (Rapid Fire) or 180s (Rapid Fire + Reload)? When do you turn it off and what should the rotation be?

Sorry for throwing ideas all over the place. I really want to test it myself but I am still on my way to level 60.
Btw, I believe cd for Quick Reload should be 30s (one of the Traits shortens it).