Quote Originally Posted by Havenchild View Post
Like I'm trying to find something that always lines up correctly.
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You'll be forced to line up Aetherflow stacks with Dreadwyrm Trance if you ever want to make use of it. Lining up Tri-Disaster/Deathflare is easy because they have 30 second cooldowns as well and every other buff is a multiple of 30 seconds so those should be easy too. I don't think you'll ever avoid DoT's dropping off at some point especially if you ever need to move. I do a typical Shadow Flare -> Bio -> Bio II -> Miasma mixing in Ruin when I don't need an attunement and Ruin II for an attunement. Doing that I refresh all 3 once (staggered) before I go into a trance. Doing that I can get off several trances in a typical boss fight and not lose a single DoT. My timers line up perfectly. I use Ifrit but Garuda is no different since you'd ideally want Contagion with your trance which luckily lasts 60 seconds making your timings line up nicely and allowing you roughly 3 Ruin I's since you wouldn't need to refresh every other trance.

Hopefully that made sense. That kind of idea has been working well for me. I can give you the full rotation but outside of the trance rotation I am not doing anything new since I don't really want to hasten my attunement stacks (ie I don't really want to have full attunement in 3 GCD's unless I really want to in the very beginning of a fight when I have 3 Aetherflow stacks and Aetherflow off cooldown). Which BTW you can use Energy Drain to add a third attunement for single target fights if you wanted a speed attunement. I guess this last bit could be amended for a brief increase to your trance usage.

It seems the new actions work best when used together so I tend to keep it that way. Having even 30 second cooldowns makes it easy to line up just right which is a nice thing about Summoners.