Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[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.