Connecting the DoTs: A Summoner Guide

[Meleoffs]

One of the big shortcomings of Contagion is that it was only ever a significant gain when combined with buffs like Raging Strikes and such. The next two times you used it, it would be an extremely tiny gain.

Now with Dreadwyrm Trance and Tri-disaster, you could get some more mileage by extending buffed DoTs every minute instead of just once every 3 minutes. This could close the gap between the pets, depending on the encounter. I haven't done any testing, though; I'll worry about it after I get my Ravana book.

Even with that the difference between the two is 2pps more in favor of garuda while ifrit does 50+ dps more. However in the long run, its worth about 20 potency per second. I do believe that ifrit more than makes up for it through his damage though and running garuda in the opener loses its benefit after 1 minute where ifrit takes over. Would it be worth considering swapping to Ifrit on the second swift cast and losing a gcd? I really don't think so. That said, I've found a pretty decent opener.

-4 rouse spur raging obey
-2.5 bio 2 > miasma > bio > fester> ruin 2 > enkindle > ruin > painflare energy drain > ruin 2 > aetherflow dreadwyrm trance > ruin 2 > pot fester > ruin 2 > swiftcast > shadowflare > tri-disaster > ruin 3 > ruin 2 > fester > ruin 2 > deathflare

This opener amounts to 237.96 potency per second burst, dropping to 176.49 potency per second after the first minute. Garuda does 241.12 potency per second burst and 191.47 until the first minute and then drops sharply after that. The 10% dmg from Dreadwyrm Trance alone isn't enough to outweigh the damage gain from ifrit past the first contagion, and probably not at all.



It's really messy and one or two things are out of place but yeah, the math that's there should be correct. It's mostly incorrect in that the last fester should be during bio, the ruin 2 where that fester is used should be ruin, and the DWT should be above the ruin 2. EDIT: Oopse corrected a mistake that makes a .41 pps difference