NIN Opener / Rotation

[Casper]

Ooshima's crit rate is obscene and, as Casper pointed out, is an exception - blessed by RNGeesus. We need more parses with 486~ Sksp, not just the 'best of', to determine the 2s GCD's true worth.

Thanks.

My guess is, the 2 sec GCD is a convenient myth. 2.15 sec GCD (so a grand total of zero additional SS) means that dancing edge, shadow fang, aeolian edge takes 17.2 sec to execute. That's 0.8 sec of clipping for shadow fang and DE. Should you have to use a jutsu, due to mudra lag, you would most likely end up with about zero clipping / downtime. Anytime you need to use mutilate, you will drop DE and SF for 1.35 to 2 seconds.

2 sec GCD means DE -> SF -> AE takes 16 seconds. total clipping of 2 seconds on DE and SF. With a mutilate, right on time, with a jutsu, a bit more of 1 sec of clipping, with both, a slight downtime.

You can't predict which of the 4 you will get each rotation, it will constantly vary between no delay, mutilate, jutsu, or both. A jutsu will most likely happen in most rotations due to having 20 sec CD, while a mutilate will only happen about half the rotations (and with a jutsu too usually). Let's assume you get a jutus in all cycles, and that you have a mutilate half the cycles, which is not far from the truth. The choice is between, on one hand, having no clipping but a down of 2 sec half the cycles, or on the other hand, having a clipping of 1.2 seconds half the time and a downtime of 0.8 sec the other half. You can not predict when the dots will tick in there too either. The result is likely to be minute and much lesser than just the luck of crits.

IMO, you will not be able to show any meaningful difference between the two with any reasonnable method.

Edit: Note that any gear will anyway have some SS one way or another, so the difference will be even lesser. For SF, the difference between clipping and dropping it will counterbalance anyway. So that leaves us with the DE buff. You are even assuming that you don't have a warrior keeping it up, in which case the point is moot. IF you are maintaining your own DE, then you are going to miss out on 10% of one attack every 2 cycles. That's at worst what ? 40 potency per minute ? that would be 1.5 dps. And that is assuming your ss is as good as crit or det excluding this technicality, which is not a given. No way there is a magic number for ninja's like there is for war. I don't buy it.