Quote Originally Posted by Maero View Post
Well i do play Nin often enough but am not Nin "main", i had always been told that the earlier you apply ta the better?
I mean it is dependent on fight, group composition, etc...
I am actually asking not indicating people are wrong, lol
Every class (and I mean every class) has a burst rotation that depends on a 20 second (or set of 20 second) cooldown. Given that they also use potions in the rotation (15 sec) and need to use a few startup skills (e..g heavy thrust+combo to disembowel, 3 hits for GLIII, Fire III/Shapcasted Fire + Blizzard III depending on rotation, dancing edge combo, etc.) they will use the potion in the tail end of the 20 seconds rather than the beginning. Using it at the pull means that you are using it, when no class is ready to take advantage of the bonuses for their burst rotation. So somewhere between 5-10 seconds in the fight will allow everyone with ample to to use their start up skills.

As an easy example, look at ninja. You need to ramp up the first dancing edge combo and don't use B4B or potion until the 2nd or 3rd GCDs. Everyone else is in a similar situation. Even if they use their CDs right as the fight start, if you get TA up before 10 seconds in the fight, it will have 100% up time under their buffs. Because we know this not be the case, we can argue that the best time for TA uptime would be between 5-25 seconds of the fight. Which essentially means you need to use it between 5-15 seconds of the fight starting.