Quote Originally Posted by Arkenne View Post
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Your example with the dragoons is bad. Both apply the debuff (passively) in their rotation to get to the dot (to maximize) dps. For NIN DE is a direct loss of damage (opportunity cost of not using AE) to keep the debuff up (if there is a warrior). If there was a combo finisher leading out of DE or it refreshed SF or MUT or something, then your example would be the same, but at that point you could delete AE.