Lock and Load: The Reassembled Machinist Guide

[Myon88]

On a macro level, thinking about the whole fight I've sometimes wondered if it's most optimum to use your damaging ogcds (during the opener) from shortest cooldown to longest, which would mean GR > Blank/Head Graze > Ricochet. Most of the other ogcds like Rapid Fire have rigid places they have to go in (before the split/slug/split portion), but the damaging ones are pretty free for all.

If you use one ogcd before the other, you are basically electing to put it on cooldown 1 second faster than the other ogcd. So the shorter the cooldown, the greater the chance that putting it on cooldown earlier will net you one extra use of it over the course of the fight.

Consider the situation where the boss dies, or the fight pauses because of a phase change. If something lucrative to hit like Ricochet was juuuust about to finish its cooldown, you'd be kicking yourself for not using it just a bit earlier on the previous use of it - if you had you would have been able to squeeze in more more use of it. If you squeeze in one last Ricochet just before a big phase of downtime, you've gained a massive lead over the person who didn't put it on cooldown yet.

For something really long like Ricochet (1 minute), this can end up being pretty rare because a 1 minute cooldown is really big and chunky, and it's not often that shaving 1 second off will net an extra use later due to lucky timings. But for something like Gauss Round that's only 20 seconds, putting it on cd 1 second faster can make a larger difference proportionally in it being up again when you want it to be.

Of course all this is highly dependent on timings. DPS and phase changes are hardly consistent so it's not something you can count on when you need it. It's something that'll you'll do passively and it'll contribute over the long run - like you'll get 2 extra Gauss Rounds on average in.. a week of raiding or something, miniscule but still something interesting to think about.