Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[girlsimulation]

Ah okay. Also the reason I do not use gauss round in the pre opener is because rapid fire speeds up the GCD to the point where gauss round won't be back up until after wildfire exploded. So I would have to test both of those openers as well. I already spent a good 6 hours doing openers this morning, then you bring that up. orz

What about popping rapid fire right after lead shot? It speeds up your split shot so you'll only have about 1 second of wildfire without all your buffs, but that 1 second is also enough time for gauss round to come off cd and for you to use it.
e: no, this doesn't quite work. b4b and he definitely still drop off before your last gcd in wildfire.

[Ephier]

What about popping rapid fire right after lead shot? It speeds up your split shot so you'll only have about 1 second of wildfire without all your buffs, but that 1 second is also enough time for gauss round to come off cd and for you to use it.
e: no, this doesn't quite work. b4b and he definitely still drop off before your last gcd in wildfire.

Also note, using RF first allows for you to pot without clipping after hot shot, as you will have the full 1.5s of GCD compared to casting and have 1s or less.

[Lavieh]

Also note, using RF first allows for you to pot without clipping after hot shot, as you will have the full 1.5s of GCD compared to casting and have 1s or less.

You also lose a whole GCD within Wildfire.

[Ephier]

You also lose a whole GCD within Wildfire.

Moving rapid fire to the prebuff instead of using it mid rotation means losing 1 skill off the wildfire, but in my testing has shown higher opening burst.

Already addressed this in a previous post, which met the response.

If you're just comparing Wildfire damage numbers you will certainly get larger numbers with an opener optimized to produce that, but that's not the whole picture.

Basically weakens wildfire by 1 gcd to improve overall dps.

[Haxetc]

Also note, using RF first allows for you to pot without clipping after hot shot, as you will have the full 1.5s of GCD compared to casting and have 1s or less.

There is no chance that you aren't clipping a GCD by using a pot after HS with RF up. The time you are unable to use a WS after using a pot is like 2 seconds or so. Maybe it's possible with JP latency but Medicine and Food make it take forever to cast a new GCD. Also, do you have any proof that opening with RF ends up as higher DPS? I find it hard to believe seeing as how I'm pretty sure I played with that a long time ago but I'm not 100% sure. Not saying you're wrong. Just saying that I would like something more concrete than just word of mouth.