NIN Opener / Rotation

[Sleigh]

K, I'll show you math why dots first is better.

Mutilate first: 60/300-150-200/240-150-200-260 - 1290 potency
Shadow Fang First: 150-200/240-60/300-150-200-260 - 1270 potency
Dancing Edge first: 150-200-250-165-220/240-66/300 - 1101 potency

Dots first is better.

I haven't looked into it much myself yet and am not taking sides, but your math doesn't apply B4B/IR/TA to the potencies. The argument so far is if unbuffed DoTs first is better, or putting up Dancing first in favor of giving enough time to make your first DoTs ~25% (10% from B4B, 10% from TA, ~5% from IR) stronger a few GCDs later than initially.

At a glance it seems buffing up before DoTs yields more potency but as I said I haven't looked into it enough to even have a valid opinion.

[Ephier]

I haven't looked into it much myself yet and am not taking sides, but your math doesn't apply B4B/IR/TA to the potencies. The argument so far is if unbuffed DoTs first is better, or putting up Dancing first in favor of giving enough time to make your first DoTs ~25% (10% from B4B, 10% from TA, ~5% from IR) stronger a few GCDs later than initially.

At a glance it seems buffing up before DoTs yields more potency but as I said I haven't looked into it enough to even have a valid opinion.

I did math a couple days ago, but it was still in favor of dots with the gap getting larger. Even with TA, the boost did not help DE first.