Quote Originally Posted by Lagomorph View Post
Which is better in terms of what will make me do more damage the majority of the time? Art of war, if you ignore how fast we run out of mp. Personally though I'd much rather miasma II, as I think a lot of other people in here would. It's a lot more fun/interesting than art of war, and I actually used it in fights that had two target situations like in deltascape v3 and unending coil to name a few. Also if my mp was running low, I would let the dot tick for its full duration before I would use it again, to get more potency per mp. Art of war is just so boring, it might be effective I guess, but it's no fun.
I don't ignore it's MP cost. But when comparing to Miasma II, people seem to ignore Miasma II's MP cost:

AoW is 800 MP out of 10000 => 8% of your MP pool
MiasmaII was 1680 out of ~18000 (in 4.5 bis) => 9.3% of your MP pool

It is better in every way, except for a few rare scenarios.