Having TP issues...

[Kitru]

Regarding flash, that's kinda just there for when I am TP starved, needs must and all that...

And if you're running out of TP, you're doing something very wrong. You should never need to use OP outside of the opening few attacks to establish initial AoE aggro and that's only if you aren't opening with SC. It really doesn't help that you're basically shooting yourself in the foot by not using Maim, which would be increasing your AoE damage/enmity by 20% as well.

I was unaware that the enmity of this was higher overall than the BB combo over time...

Maim is a 20% increase to damage dealt, which translates into 20% more enmity off of all of your attacks. SE is a 10% reduction in resistance, which is a ~11% increase in slashing damage dealt to the target. Combine those two, and you're getting 33% more damage and enmity out of everything you do compared to straight BB spam.

Math:

BB combo:
83.33 + (150 + 200 * 3 + 280 * 5) / 3 = 800.00 ePot/GCD
83.33 + (150 + 200 + 280) / 3 = 293.33 ePot/GCD

SE>BB>BB:
((83.33 * 3 + 150 + 190 + 270) * 1.2 + 2 * (83.33 * 3 + 150 + 200 * 3 + 280 * 5) * 1.2 / .9) / 9 = 825.77 ePot/GCD
((83.33 * 3 + 150 + 190 + 270) * 1.2 + 2 * (83.33 * 3 + 150 + 200 + 280 ) * 1.2 / .9) / 9 = 375.40 ePot/GCD

[pikster]

And if you're running out of TP, you're doing something very wrong.

That was the purpose of the thread ^^ XD

Otherwise though I just did couple of brayflow HM, on the larger pulls I made some changes as you advised and went Tomohawk > SC > SE (split between mobs) > BB combo (again split between mobs) X2 > SC when infuriated. The BLM was close to getting hate but that was thanks to flare spam but they stayed on me, and I still had 560 TP~ by the end of the pulls, so that worked out.

Thanks very much for the input