Monk rotation help

[Naalya-Deix]

You also need a lot of skill speed for twin snakes not to fall off using true strike in the rotation.

Right, but True Strike is worth considering even with say 2.10 sec GCD (easy to reach).

In order not to have 0 DPS loss from Twin snakes buff you have to get to the point of 2 sec GCD, which is reached with a lot of SS indeed, in fact too much and it will be never reachable right now (unless you're a dumbass who gimps his det / crit) : 500 +. There is a stair curve for many stats and Skill Speed is worth having till 2.10 GCD in fact.

BUT, this is loss only FROM Twin snakes, if you want the total loss or the total gain, you have to delta with true strike while considering the number of cycles you don't have twin snake buff with GCD = X.

Considering my 2.10 GCD, which is easily reachable even with our BiS (full det / crit), there will be 0.10 cycle without the buff.

1 cycle = 2.10 * 3 [modulo gcd out of our cycle]
0.10 = 0.10 * 2.10 * 3 ~ 0.63 sec

H1 : DoTs are snapshotted during application only
H2 : attack speed is pretty damn low = 2.7 sec with R+1

1 GCD = 2.10
1) 2.10 / 0.63 = 3.33 => every 3 twin snakes loss, so every 6 cycle in fact (!), you'll lose one GCD at least with * 1.10 bonus damage which is for the best 180 potency * 0.10 = 18 potency loss every 5/6 cycles

2) 2.7 / 0.63 = 4.2 => every 4 twin snakes loss, so every 7/8 cycle in fact (!), you'll lose an AA with * 1.10 bonus damage. Which is in at best 150 * 0.10 potency = 15 potency loss every 7/8 cycle.

Meanwhile, you'll do :
1) 3 True strike which is compared to twin snakes (both are under previous twin snake buff) : (150 potency - 140 potency) * 3 = 30 potency damage bonus
2) Nothing

Finally, Twin snake versus True strike is :
- 18 + 15 = 33 potency bonus for Twin
- 30 potency bonus for True Strike

So yeah, Twin Snakes with this GCD (which is our Cap to go since 2.0 is not reachable) is better of 3 potency but don't forget it has a 5% crit bonus and with higher crit and IR activated, you'd rather do True Strike every 2 cycles UNLESS you used GCD for DoTs. In fact, when I'm using DoTs, I stick with flank rotation for the next cycle.

[From BC5 Monk]