Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
If you can get hold of a timeline and then craft your rotations around it, the muscle memory solidifies waaaay more quickly. Otherwise, it's just a sense of how many GCDs or how long relative to particular CDs each phase or interim lasts, and thinking about phases as preparing for events, rather than events alone as the time to react to them.
Oh I'll keep that in mind! I never pay attention to phases except for certain fights that are really obvious, particularly because I'm not watching the boss' HP. That can help me a lot.