Quote Originally Posted by BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY View Post
anyhow... i don't know, and am not a master BRD or anything ^_^
WM is a strict increase in DPS at all times.

Cast times don't impact your dps at all. You have a 1.5s cast timer and a 2.5s gcd (at base ss) right? So then your first hit comes at 1.5s. Your next one at 4.0s. Next at 6.5s. Without WM, it's 0, 2.5, 5.0. Same distance between hits. It's not a loss to be using it, and each of those hits under WM is 30% stronger than the equivalent hit out of it. The problem for 52-53 before EA is on the scene is that the 30% damage buff is competing with the loss of auto-attacks and the Bard's inability to understand how to cast, having been mobile for the past 51 levels. I'll have to test it when I get it myself, but I'm fairly sure that WM will be a dps gain *at the very least* in aoe pulls, because every RoD proc is 30% stronger.