Optimal BRD rotation?

[SlyRoyale]

Unfortunately I'm not on Steam (nor use it) so I can't be there.

Damn. Would it be possible to make an alt on Tonberry and ask you there, or would that be too much of a hassle? I'd like to get to the bottom of this and see every single piece of evidence I can gather on which opener is stronger (yours or the DoT, since Krietor's isn't that good). A parse or two from your end is welcome, but I'm the kind of person who wants to experience things for their own.

The most ideal situation is having Raging Strikes, IR , Hawk's Eye and BfB up for the entire duration of the X-Pot, fully abusing it and hoping that you get BL procs and Straighter Shot procs. For me, if I get lucky with procs during openers, I may very well be floating around 480-510 ish range with the crappy IL120 bow and around IL113ish gears for 1.5 mins to 2 mins into the fight before normalizing.

Hrm, it is my understanding that BRDs can squeeze in two buffs between GCDs pending on their skill speed. If I wanted to make full use of it in my DoT opener, I would have to use Raging Strikes where Blunt Arrow would be used, then pop Blood for Blood and a potion after the next GCD (WB + BL > VB + HE + RS > SS + BfB + pot...). That might result in not using a GCD when you're supposed to due to animation locking from the potion. They're usually hard to weave in, but I imagine that's just a timing issue.

Either way, the sooner I can put this behind me the better. If there's ways to improve my numbers and performance, I will not hesitate to seek them out and challenge them to see where they stand.