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    Cetonis's Avatar
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    Sana Cetonis
    World
    Adamantoise
    Main Class
    Bard Lv 100
    Due to River of Blood, it's not really viable to stance dance for a no-oGCD Heavy Shot string in the same way that Machinists might. It's really best to just have WM on 99% of the time. The 1% is comprised of:

    A) Situations where you are going to be losing a substantial (say, more than 1 in 5) amount of GCDs due to either extended movement or single-target enemy deaths. These don't really happen in Alex Savage, but Bis EX wind phase can be an example of the former, and Rav EX butterflies arguably of the latter.

    B) Extremely rare cases where you know exactly when your auto-attacks are happening and have a specific plan to spend ~3.25 or ~6.5 seconds outside of WM because some confluence of factors causes it to be an overall potency gain. It is not recommended for anyone to consider this unless they are very comfortable with the class and have done the math to be certain that it isn't just dumb.
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    Pande Monium
    World
    Odin
    Main Class
    Alchemist Lv 60
    Atm i only use Feint in a few conditions.

    * Move more time than a GCD usage or i have an oGCD to use. Sometimes i have the GCD to use, dodge an aoe ground, use feint and i have to wait for GCD reset to shot again. It's weird :/. I prefer don't use Feint and delay my GCD to, once i dodge the aoe, use HS/SS/IJ.

    * I need a fast attack to kill a mob and don't wait for a cast and the tick damage, like Adds in a1S, a3s and a4S. Feint damage is executed instantly instead others abilities which damage take more time.
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