Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[Myon88]

#2, You're wasting seconds of buffs no matter when you use them, it's unavoidable because we just have so many buffs to activate.

Consider these two sequences,

BFB, HE, RS, Boss pull
Hot Shot, Potion...

Boss pull, BFB, HE, RS
Hot Shot, Potion...

Whenever you use Hawk Eye, you're 'wasting' one GCD of BFB's uptime to cast it, this is unavoidable. When you use Raging Strikes, you're wasting one GCD of BFB and Hawk Eye's uptime to cast it too. You get the same benefit to your damage outpit from the buffs in all cases, 20 seconds of Raging Strikes, 19 seconds of Hawk Eye, and 18 seconds of BFB (roughly). It doesn't change whether you do it before the pull or afterwards.

However, by doing it before the fight, at least you don't lose out on DPS on boss while enrage timers are ticking down. In the second case, you just spent 3 seconds of the enrage timer doing no DPS and just casting buffs, while in the former case you can start actually hitting the boss much quicker.

It's like running a marathon - putting your shoes on is gonna take 10 seconds no matter what, and it doesn't give you credit toward completion. Would you rather do it before the race or after the starting gun has fired?

#5, Turrets don't attack until you yourself attack, or something hits you and turns on "battle mode". So before the pull, you can cast it near the boss and it won't aggro the boss.