Quote Originally Posted by HyoMinPark View Post
Why would you ever delay Flourish as much as you have? And why start with a Fountain > Cascade combo when you should immediately be setting up Technical Step. Your second opener has the very likelihood of your Flourished procs falling out of your Technical Finish buff window, which is a huge no-no as it’s a major personal DPS loss. Flourish and Technical Finish compliment one another (TF’s buff is 20 seconds and all Flourished procs are 20 seconds), and should never be arbitrarily delayed for the weaker Fountain > Cascade combo (and subsequent, unaccounted for procs).

I’ll stick with the already established DNC opener, and I highly recommend all prospective DNCs and DNCs interested in optimizing do the same.
So long as you get Bloodshower and FountainFall within Tech Finish, it's pretty much filled with GCDs over 300 potency. Also, double-weaving Devilment and Flourish causes clipping.

Besides, the bigger issue are the Saber Dance procs, as using them takes priority over Flourish moves within the Tech Finish window, even though it could cause you to lose a Flourish Procs (SE really needs to make it so that Saber Dance refreshes Flourish procs. At least by 5 secs...)

I wouldn't necessarily say that Flourish lines up perfectly with Tech Finish either because you could find yourself in a situation where you go into Tech Step with a Reverse Cascade and Fountainfall proc, as well as enough Espirit for a Saber Dance and/or Standard Step might come off of CD or be ready to go. Obviously, you don't want to overwrite those two procs and you'd want to hold it till after Saber Dance and Standard Step so you lower the risk of losing Flourish procs at all, let alone worrying about them falling out of the Tech Finish window.