And yet another SMN thread...

[ChaoticCrimson]

I feel like a reduction of the DWT/FBT cooldowns would serve better for the overall flow of things, maybe down to 45s. As it stands, we're hard-casting DOTs a lot more than we were in StB, and that along with Ruin II's much lower potency, as well as Bahamut no longer using Wyrmwave for each of your actions but instead only on GCD actions, are all big factors in the loss of mobility and flexibility with the job. Even just the lower frequency of Trances on its own does a lot to slow us down. Does having more time with Bahamut and Phoenix reduce the amount of time with the Egis? Yes, and I think that's fine. DWT is their time, and should be the time when you can weave Egi Assaults to prep Ruin IV procs for the upcoming Bahamut phase. By the time you come out of Bahamut, FBT would then be a few seconds from coming off of cooldown and ready to use shortly. This will also make the necessity to hard-cast your DOTs a rare occurrence, a fallback if something goes wonky. Along with some slight potency adjustments, I think having a steady flow of DWT>Bahamut>FBT>repeat without all the awkward downtime will make things much less clunky and more enjoyable overall.

[Gallus]

Yes. Reducing the CD of DWT to 50 seconds would also work, but obviously that'd be a heavier buff than what I was asking for...so they'd probably have to adjust the numbers, putting both miasma and bio III at 33 seconds instead of 30 would merely be a QoL change.

As it stands, we're hard-casting DOTs a lot more than we were in StB

Pretty sure this isn't true.

What I always do is Tridisaster -> DWT -> Summon Bahamut -> Tridisaster (approx. halfway through bahamut) -> Phoenix -> Tridisaster -> And then here yes, once Phoenix leaves in 10 seconds there's an inevitable moment where you hardcast your dots, but then you just go back Tri- DWT... and rinse and repeat.

Always assuming we are in single target mode of course...