NIN Opener / Rotation

[Ooshima]

isnt that the same as say Shadow Flare have no use in single target battle (assume boss fight)?

Doton : Potency 30, 24s
Shadow Flare: Potency 25, 30s

Because Shadow Flare is for the ACN base class and subsequent job which is pretty much DoT based. SMN/SCH's main attack are just Ruin and Ruin II, which are low potency per hit and thus Shadow Flare and DoTs are their supplements.

Another person have also pointed out that all your Ninjitsus shared a same 20s CD timer. It will be a no brainer that in a Single target situation, Raiton is the highest potency.

Do you have the gear to make a parse with less sks and more det/crit with a comparable ilvl? I get that 2.0s gcd makes the rotation better for dancing edge uptime, yet I'm still not sure if this makes up for the loss of det/crit you have for stacking sks that high, especially regarding sks not having impact on auto attacks and those being such a huge part of melee dps damage.

Yes. Initially my crafted NIN set was without skill speed. There is a lot of Dancing Edge drops and DoTs dropping off because I can't get them to sync up.

Until we found out that the magic number was 2.0GCD, things improved a lot. I mean a lot when I can parse an average of 480 on dummy without food and all other buffs (higher end parses are about 49X) but I only managed about 44X at best (same conditions, no food no buff) before I stacked skill speed into my Arachne gears.

So for me, as a NIN, stack skill speed to about 488, then go for Det, then Crit.

[Cynric]

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Yeah I got quite a lot of help testing last night. Wish I could take video easier , but SKSPD to be @ 2.00- GCD is best indeed. I'd like to add that I feel like when there are times like say we are on dancing edge rotation but Dancing edge will refresh at 4 s or more we can do an ID(yeah I know bear with me) before the Spin as filler to make a bit more use of those extra seconds. But I didn't get to test this enough to see if its worth it before my friend went to sleep. Do you mind testing for me ?