How does everyone feel about skill speed?

[Woodberry]

Speaking of dots, what is the proper course of action to take in the following example:

You have applied a dot that is buffed with raging strike. Raging strikes has faded and the dot is approaching expiration. Your GCD comes up with 1 second left on the DOT. Is it best to delay the GCD in order to get your DOT back up or should you fire off an attack and lose 1.5 seconds of DOT uptime?

[Gotcha]

Speaking of dots, what is the proper course of action to take in the following example:

You have applied a dot that is buffed with raging strike. Raging strikes has faded and the dot is approaching expiration. Your GCD comes up with 1 second left on the DOT. Is it best to delay the GCD in order to get your DOT back up or should you fire off an attack and lose 1.5 seconds of DOT uptime?

Any dot that is applied with a damage increase(like raging strikes) can not be reapplied without the same damage buff or one of more potency. You have to let it fall off before you can apply the dot without rageing strikes. The effect is the same with non-stacking buffs aswell.

[Woodberry]

Any dot that is applied with a damage increase(like raging strikes) can not be reapplied without the same damage buff or one of more potency. You have to let it fall off before you can apply the dot without rageing strikes. The effect is the same with non-stacking buffs aswell.

I understand this. I was asking if you should delay the global cooldown and wait that second to apply the dot or use a damage ability like heavy shot and lose 1.5 seconds of the dot being up.

In normal circumstances, I'd use an attack, but with bards you also lose a potential tick of damage which can proc a bloodletter, so it may be better to delay to GCD.