The Ninja Superthread

[Allyrion]

I've only got as far as lvl 56 so Im also in the dark about Dream.
But supposing it doesnt have an animation lock that wont let you do anything else...

As I see it, neither of your buffs will reach Aeolian Edge. 'Tis true that Mug and Jug doesn't have much of an animation lock so they can go pretty quickly, but they are 140 and 80 potency respectively, even if you add them up they wont get as much of a bonus as an unbuffed Aeolian Edge...
I think we should give the priority order of Ninjutsu > Dream > Mug > Jugulate and Duality always before Aeolian.

I agree DwD should be higher priority than Mug and Jugulate.
Also, I think BfB should start after Spinning Edge, and IR after Gust Slash so they'll up for the full opener, but not delayed further than that.

Duality always on Aeolian sounds great in theory, but if you're keeping up Dancing Edge yourself then you delay it too much in my opinion.
There have been a good few times it's just off cooldown but I need to do a full Dancing Edge combo and refresh the dots before I can do AE (which is at the end of its own combo).

If you can sync Duality with AE reasonably, that's great but if if you're gonna have to hold the cooldown for 10s+, I doubt it's a dps increase."
Maybe when pandabearcat finishes that simulator it'll be clearer what the most optimized will be though.

[Arkenne]

Duality conditions and priority relations between DE and AE

You've presented a good point. 'Tis true I commented Duality being exclusively reserved for AE, but till now for some reason didn't bother about mathing the rotation 90 seconds later to see how available it might be to AE. Specially since by then there is a lot of things happening that might imply the lose of your combo by disconects at some point.

Giving it a priority of AE > AC > DE depending the situation might be an answer closer to reality. Altho exclusively speaking of the opener... yep, AE.