Summoner / Scholar, In Math and Practice

[Exolithus]

You dont want to understand it dont you?
you DONT want Garuda to use Contagion if you have raging strikes ready 10 seconds after

[SokoSplat]

@T0rin:
What ilevel is your gear? (if you're around 85-90 then it'd be within the range mentioned earlier with the +10 from 64).

I just went to coerthas and started hitting the left side dummies, no contagion casts there either (was in MD killing gigas, lightnings, snakes). If I drop a bio 1 on it then it casts a few seconds (between 1-3 wind blades).
Anyone else have agro on it maybe? (Also, was shockwave casting at all?)
http://sollabs.net/media/xiv/castplz.jpg

As for stopping casting, I just bind to g (sic) and shift +g (obey), if I need to run to dodge, sprint(f)[makes me laugh every time I type it] and pet obey are within the same hand gesture. The timing doesn't have to line up 100% (15 sec is 15 sec regardless of if the dot is at 3 seconds or full cast) as long as all the dots are on it (at least in my mind).

Time to load up that parser maybe it can reveal something I'm not seeing regarding obey vs sic.

[SokoSplat]

@Sol_Aureus:
Sure :P.
@T0rin (again heh):
I don't cast, I just turn off/on depending on when I need it to fire off (rarely manually cast, I should say).
Also, loaded up that parser
nearly identical in both stats. bounced between 59-62 depending on dummies (used l50 dummies with aerial slash burning on CD to hit all 3.
http://sollabs.net/media/xiv/ruda_sic.jpg
http://sollabs.net/media/xiv/ruda_obey.jpg
If you want to hop on hyperion I can have you see the parses yourself. Reset their stats and ran each one up to 30k and received nearly identical results.

[T0rin]

@T0rin:
What ilevel is your gear? (if you're around 85-90 then it'd be within the range mentioned earlier with the +10 from 64).

i89. Missing pants, have i95 book.

I just went to coerthas and started hitting the left side dummies, no contagion casts there either (was in MD killing gigas, lightnings, snakes). If I drop a bio 1 on it then it casts a few seconds (between 1-3 wind blades).
Anyone else have agro on it maybe? (Also, was shockwave casting at all?)
http://sollabs.net/media/xiv/castplz.jpg

No one else was hitting the dummy. Tried level 1 and 50 dummies, both resulted in Contagion being cast. Went outside Whitebrim and tested on Ice Sprites, was casting Contagion there as well.

As for stopping casting, I just bind to g (sic) and shift +g (obey), if I need to run to dodge, sprint(f)[makes me laugh every time I type it] and pet obey are within the same hand gesture. The timing doesn't have to line up 100% (15 sec is 15 sec regardless of if the dot is at 3 seconds or full cast) as long as all the dots are on it (at least in my mind).

@T0rin (again heh):
I don't cast, I just turn off/on depending on when I need it to fire off (rarely manually cast, I should say).
Also, loaded up that parser
nearly identical in both stats. bounced between 59-62 depending on dummies (used l50 dummies with aerial slash burning on CD to hit all 3.
http://sollabs.net/media/xiv/ruda_sic.jpg
http://sollabs.net/media/xiv/ruda_obey.jpg
If you want to hop on hyperion I can have you see the parses yourself. Reset their stats and ran each one up to 30k and received nearly identical results.

In your screenshots, I see 12.5k and 6.2k (Obey and Sic respectively) of damage being parsed, and the crit rates on the Obey parse were significantly less. You should run it for long enough that those crit rates level out for both parses. Also, since we're talking about ST damage output, you shouldn't be parsing in a scenario where Aerial Slash is hitting multiple dummies at once.