Quote Originally Posted by Aryn_Lastrov View Post
Edit: I understand what you're saying now, that the time you save in fire is spent waiting on that mp tick. But with ley lines + arrow and/or a swiftcasted Flare I would assume that you'd get an early mp tick. Its also likely that the mobs will die around your Flare, and since arrow has sped up that part of the rotation, your Flare has come out early and your dps will be higher because of it. It's not a great card for aoe, but it is almost always a dps increase

You still kinda misunderstand.
Not only are you waiting on the MP tick, you can't just cast right away as soon as you get the tick to cast F3 as the cast time is now 2.77 seconds with arrow.

Also, your 10% increase is 1.72 seconds based on my SS on a GCD of 2.2 seconds.
Which makes the rotation go from 14.52 seconds to 12.8 seconds. Making the rotation take exactly the same amount of time (15 seconds).
But potentially screwing up your rotation cast causing you to go into AF early. You don't want to build bad habits by waiting to cast things.


Quote Originally Posted by Aryn_Lastrov View Post
No it doesn't.

Just wait a fraction of a second before casting fire 3. It is the only part of the rotation which does not benefit from arrow.
Do you really want to screw up a rotation because you waited 0.22 seconds instead of 0.23 seconds? Or if you delay yourself by 0.5 seconds and the buff falls off you miss an MP tick because your rotation now takes you in-between MP ticks causing you to go into AF 3 seconds later?

While it may in theory work sometimes on paper, in reality you're just inviting an error for what is most likely a DPS loss.