Quote Originally Posted by Zyneste View Post
Our personal DPS will always be the lowest amongst the casters. If a Verward/Vercure can save a healer GCD, we aren't really losing any rdps, except from an fflogs stand point.
Did we already forget that this thread existed? If anything, it's proven that the principle of utility never making up for DPS potential still holds true today.
Second wind has no opportunity cost except the cool down and the OGCD weave used.
Second Wind cannot be used on someone other than yourself, and an oGCD (really?) is not a loss, especially when compared to spending procs on something that's not damage, consuming resources that could be used to deal damage on off-role actions and so on. We thus can't compare a personal cooldown (Second Wind) with utility (Vercure, Verraise, Clemency, Divine Veil, your proposed Verward).
Using them with acceleration everytime would also be a dps loss, outside of AOE, their use is situational.
Per your description, casting Vercure/Verward under the effect of Acceleration grants a buff that doubles the potency of the next spell. Which means Acceleration + Vercure/Verward => Veraero/Verthunder is looking at 620 potency over 5s (2 GCDs), as opposed to Jolt II => Veraero/Verthunder (560 potency over 5s) or Verfire/Verstone => Veraero/Verthunder (580 potency over 5s). If potency scaling of singular abilities has diminishing returns the higher the number gets, now would be a good time to tell me because I'm just going by the numbers listed and what you wrote.
I doubt wed be taxed farther than dualcast VerRaise, even after/if the raise tax is lessened on us in 5.1.
Shrugging your shoulders and giving more reason for the tax to exist is not the way to go about this, IMO.