Quote Originally Posted by Garotte14 View Post
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Calculating damage purely based on time is plain useless. That's not how rotations work. Sure, you might say that you could have dealt double the potency in the first 8 seconds, but in the next 8 seconds, the Blizzard opener will deal much more damage because you're in a fresh Fire cycle. You also forgot that we're pre-casting the first spell, so the potency loss isn't that severe either.

About Blizzard opener in A3S: I haven't encountered any problems at all. If you B3 > T1 > Sharp > F3 > F1 > Fire cycle, you can easily time your Firestarter for the Protean Wave.