FF 5.X Alternative Raid Buff Alignment and Openers

[Oxdarock]

The fact you have to ask this speaks volumes on why you aren't qualify to theorycraft. Delaying buffs without rhyme or reason is a net loss. Earlier you claim delaying buffs comes down to if you'll lose a usage. While true to an extent, your delays on Dragoon work against it. You aren't buffing the strongest ability in our wheel house, and needlessly delaying all our oGCDs. I actually tested your rotation on a dummy compared to the actual Dragoon rotation and the differences are staggering. Simply retaining the oGCDs doesn't account for the fact you're delaying them with absolutely no benefit. Chaos Thrust is stronger than Full Thrust by a whooping 160 potency due to the DoT. Holding buffs for the weaker ability results in a loss no matter how you slice it. And the results don't lie.

These aren't alternative openers. They're simply inferior guesswork with zero purpose.

I like how you skipped the list of abilities that are supposed to fit within all raid buffs and went straight to end. I know my reason behind this alignment and creating this list. I'm asking for a reason everyone else believes this is completely subpar. I've already stated several times that if early raid buff openers gain you an extra cast overall, then go with those. It's interesting because it's commonly accepted to delay raid buffs towards the end of an encounter apparently, which is the exact same reasoning behind this raid alignment for the opener. So aside from that, what's the reasoning people seem to see that I don't?

As for your DRG test, I place Battle Litany right before Raiden Thrust. It's a 20 second buff, so you should fit in 8 GCDs. How are you not fitting in the second Chaos Thrust? And you stay it's staggeringly different lower, but by what criteria is this going by and are you doing the rotation correctly? I can say for a fact that if you save LotD for the third GsK, if you start Life with StarDiver, you're going to miss the third Nastrond as it comes off CD right before FT, which is when you'd use LS and LC again.