Not to be overly critical, but it's what I tell my group, too. If you wipe to Equal Concentration because Chaos Thrust is ticking on the wrong hand, someone isn't pulling their weight, and it isn't necessarily the dragoon. Once when we wiped to it, everyone was really confused and I mentioned I swapped over a GCD too late - I hit LS+FT on the wrong hand just after EC casted. But like. No buffs; it was about 3000-ish damage. That was apparently enough to make us fail.

That's bad. The group around you needs to step it up if numbers that small in the wrong direction cause you to fail the check this late in gear progression.

When you're looking at doing upwards of 9000 raid dps to the EC hand in 20s, that's 180,000 damage you can be pumping out - at least. If a swing of 3k here or there fucks that up, the group needs to get better. There's no more polite way to put it.

Also, don't worry about the not-holding-b4b thing. The difference that makes to your overall dps is likely not gonna be noticed. Yeah, it's more to NOT hold it, but your second B4B won't be full duration, and the first one won't get 2-3 gsk on double hands nor will it get dfd on double hands. So like... without running numbers for it, I can't see it being too huge a gain to use it on CD compared to saving it for EC/double hands. I didn't even notice a (significant) gain when I stopped holding it, tbh.