Every counter example goes "big number is bigger" ... nobody else is even looking at the idea that getting more rotations in for more damage might be better.

I'm not looking at 1 rotation, I'm not looking at 1 minute, I'm looking at entire DPS over an entire long fight.

Every 90 seconds, every 3 refreshes, you gain 3 GCD, an entire main combo. You lose 210 (Storm eye - tempest, times three) doing it, but the main combo is MUCH more then 210.

Even at storm path, that's a loss of 360, in order to get one more main combo out. How much damage do you do with the main 3 hit combo?

Though, here's a key question, would this push off the timing of every 30 second and every 60 second events enough that those fall off rhythem, or do they fit even better?