Well, the direction this conversation took has certainly been interesting. But, back to the main topic at hand. For those who saw my recent challenge on the tank version of this thread, I said how I'd be pointing out issues with the NIN opener first. Well, I have good news and bad news.

The good news is that I've finally pieced together all of the goals of the Early TA opener (a.k.a, the current Balance opener). There are some tweaks that can be made to make it even better, but it finally makes sense to me. Would definitely help if there was more explanation to go with it on the NIN guide, but I guess I'll take the time to explain it later, if only for self reaffirmation.

The bad news? When the same logic is applied to the delayed TA opener, it ends up making it even stronger for personal NIN dps, along with the increase to raid dps I've been advocating. I'll be sure to address all of this down the road, but I just thought I'd give people a heads up. Look forward to it!