Beginner NIN question: clip it or skip it?

[Raldo]

Speaking as a BRD, we’re always told to clip our DoTs with IJ at 1~3 seconds remaining, rather than allowing them to drop entirely because of the potency loss.

BRDs have to clip because if they don't, they have to use two actions to get the DoTs back up, rather than just one. It has little to do with potency loss, and more because if they drop, your songs can't proc. The same reasoning cannot be applied to NIN.

Tsubaki75 has the right answer, however.

Clipping a cpl ticks is better than waiting 3 gcd's to reapply it