Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Myon88]

Precisely, it ultimately hinges on whether getting that extra bit of damage is worth the GCD spent casting it.

To illustrate it another way, imagine that we suddenly got a new trait that gave Ricochet a 20 second cooldown, same as Gauss Round.

Now, at 300 potency, Ricochet is obviously so lucrative to use that you would be more than happy to let it 'jump the queue' in your opener, so to speak.

You would find a way to fit another cast of Ricochet in at all costs, even if it means shifting everything else 1 GCD further back. Because no matter what you happen to be doing at the time, if a 1 GCD, 300 potency attack lights up, chances are it's going to be a better option than whatever you were doing anyway.

So the question is, at 180 potency, is Gauss Round lucrative enough to warrant the same behavior? You would obviously modify your opener to accomodate a double-Ricochet because it's just that worth it, and you would maybe do it for Gauss Round. So it's a matter of degrees, at some point between 300 and 0 potency it goes from being "Worth it" to "Not worth it".